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Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and treatment options.
Current allergy and asthma reports - 1 Apr 2008
Adcock Ian M, Ford Paul A, Bhavsar Pank, Ahmad Tehireem, Chung Kian Fan
Abstract excerpt
Glucocorticoid insensitivity presents a profound management problem in patients with asthma because conventional therapies are not effective. Glucocorticoids, acting through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), are able to selectively repress inflammatory gene expression by utilizing several distinct mechanisms targeting nuclear factor-varphiB and activator protein-1 activation complexes and by effects on...
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