Overcoming steroid insensitivity in respiratory disease / edited by Ian M. Adcock and Kian Fan Chung.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Molecular mechanisms of GR action / Pankaj Bhavsar and Ian M. Adcock -- Side effects of topical and oral glucocorticoids / Heike Schocke, Khusru Asadullah, Wolf-Dietrich Docke -- Glucocorticoid receptor subtypes and steroid sensitivity / Robert H. Oakley and John A. Cidlowski -- Dissociated glucocorticoids / Ian M. Adcock -- Generalised glucocorticoid insensitivity : clinical phenotype and molecular mechanisms / Evangelia Charmandari, Tomoshige Kino, and George P. Chrousos -- Corticosteroid responsiveness in asthma : clinical aspects / K. Fan Chung -- Glucocorticoid insensitive asthma : molecular mechanisms / John W. Bloom -- Cigarette smoke, oxidative stress, and corticosteroid responsiveness / Irfan Rahman and David Adenuga -- Regulation of glucocorticoid sensitivity by macrophage migration inhibitory factor / Eric F. Morand -- Steroid sparing strategies : long-acting inhaled 2-agonists / Anna Miller-Larsson and Olof Selroos -- Steroid sparing strategies : other combinations / Gaetano Caramori, Kazuhiro Ito, and Alberto Papi -- Kinases as anti-inflammatory targets for respiratory disease / Iain Kilty -- Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic factors and steroid sensitivity / Günther Hochhaus -- Overcoming steroid insensitivity / Ian M. Adcock and K. Fan Chung.

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