Inflammatory Disease Therapy : Preclinical and Clinical Developments

The search for new drugs for inflammatory diseases currently centres on a number of questions.

These include the role of biologics in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the possible effectiveness of anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of asthma and the feasibility of developing neuropeptide inhibitors as analgesics.

This volume focuses on recent preclinical and clinical advances in inflammatory disease research in lung inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, ischemia/reprefusion injury and inflammatory pain.

The chapters include the most recent results obtained from novel animal models, as well as new insights into the role of the adhesion of inflammatory cells to the endothelium and to other cells in connection with inflammatory diseases of the lung and joints.