The Search for Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: Case Histories from Concept to Clinic - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1461598486 ISBN 13: 9781461598480

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2012

Synopsis

Perspectives on Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Inflammation is a very complicated process of interrelated events and cas­ cades that does not allow for an easily defined, focused attack for drug discovery. It is evident from years of research and development that certain classes of compounds (e.g., NSAIDs, steroids, and so on) have had a meas­ ure of success in alleviating pain and even dampening cellularlhormonal mechanisms involved in the process. Clear, mechanism-related therapies (e.g., for arthritis) and targeted drugs (e.g., for transplantation) have not been available in the past and, in reality, research in inflammation has re­ lied on more phenomenological approaches for resolving symptoms or on blatant cytoreductive approaches in cases like organ transplantation. In the last decade, approaches that have revealed novel cellular pathways in which intervention is possible for lymphocyte regulation (for example, cyclosporine and FK506) and small molecular weight mediators (e.g., leu­ kotriene inhibitors) are now either standard therapy or will be in a short time. These latter approaches have been the result of research from the 1970s up to the present.

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This book will be a valuable asset for a medical or university library, as well as for researchers and clinicians. It will make an enticing reading for non-specialists interested in the history behind modern pharmacology, and can be used as a textbook in graduate courses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1461598486
• ISBN 13: 9781461598480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Merluzzi Vincent J., Adams Julian