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Glucocorticoids and Asthma

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Book cover Recent Advances in Glucocorticoid Receptor Action

Part of the book series: Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop ((SCHERING FOUND,volume 40))

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Corticosteroids are highly effective anti-inflammatory therapy in asthma, and the molecular mechanisms involved in suppression of allergic inflammation are now better understood (Barnes 1998, 2001). Corticosteroids are effective clinically because they block many of the inflammatory pathways that are abnormally activated in asthma and they have a very broad spectrum of anti-inflammatory actions.

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Barnes, P.J. (2002). Glucocorticoids and Asthma. In: Cato, A.C.B., Schäcke, H., Asadullah, K. (eds) Recent Advances in Glucocorticoid Receptor Action. Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04660-9_1

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