Asthma
Subtitle: modern therapeutic targets
By: edited by Riccardo Polosa, Stephen T. Holgate
Series: Therapeutic strategies; Therapeutic strategies
Publisher: Clinical Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781846925641
Subjects: Respiratory; Asthma; Diseases; MEDICAL; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Therapy; Treatment; Anti-Asthmatic Agents; HEALTH & FITNESS; Therapeutic use
Description: The care of an increasing number of adult and child patients with asthma has become a major task for clinicians, and a growing concern for public health physicians and health care administrators. At the same time, and in response to this situation, a considerable effort is being made in basic and clinical research to develop new treatments. This book looks into the future and assesses the possibilities of a number of new therapies for asthma under exploration and development. A group of distinguished international authors examine the potential of new agents working on various targets that are.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Editors and Contributors; Preface; Section I: Autocoids and their receptors in airway diseases; Section II: Enzyme inhibitors; Section III: Sensory nerves and sensory neuropeptides; Section IV: Receptors in immunology; Abbreviations; Index;