Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease

Emphasizing state-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches in controlling pathophysiological processes in the airways, Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease reviews normal and abnormal physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of the respiratory tract.Covering the basic mechanisms of inflammatory cell activation and pathophysiology in disease, therapeutic ways of controlling inflammation, reversing or preventing airflow obstruction, and symptomatic treatments of advanced disease.Written as a concise clinical reference guide covering the current and future airway disease treatments, this text encompasses:pathophysiology of respiratory tract diseasesthe methods of measuring airway and clinical responsesthe concepts upon which many treatments are used in COPD and asthma conditionsthe way in which these treatments work, and how new treatments can be discovered and tested in various patient groupsstate-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches in controlling pathophysiological processes in the airwaysnormal and abnormal physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of the respiratory tractbasic mechanisms of inflammatory cell activation and pathophysiology in diseasetherapeutic ways of controlling inflammationways of reversing or preventing airflow obstruction, and symptomatic treatments of advanced disease