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Inflammation & Allergy - Drug Targets (Discontinued)

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1871-5281
ISSN (Online): 2212-4055

Developmental Current and Future Therapy for Severe Asthma

Author(s): Yutaka Nakamura

Volume 12, Issue 1, 2013

Page: [54 - 60] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/1871528111312010008

Price: $65

Abstract

Severe or refractory bronchial asthma represents 5-10% of the asthmatic population that responds poorly to high doses of inhaled corticosteroids. Biopharmaceutical approaches have identified new therapies that target key cells and mediators, such as Th2-cells, cytokines, and chemokines. However, some of the clinical trials with these biologics in patients with asthma have been unsuccessful, thus some of these studies had to be discontinued. This article will review current therapeutic strategies of biological immune response modifiers in decreasing pathological immune responses. Therapies using cytokine inhibitors currently provide a way to elucidate the role of individual cytokines in the pathogenesis of human diseases and may yield new approaches to identifying asthma phenotypes.

Keywords: Biological immunotherapeutics, bronchial asthma, personalized medicine, refractory severe asthma, pediatric patients, cytokine inhibitors, cytokines, human diseases, allergic airway, omalizumab


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