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HOT TOPICS IN RESPIRATORY MEDICINE: Issue 6, 2007
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: treatment (Part Two)
New treatments for COPD
Robert A. Stockley, Alice M. Wood
Correspondence to:
Alice M. Wood - MBChB Physician Department of Respiratory Medicine University of Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, West Midlands, UK E-mail: alice.wood@uhb.nhs.uk
Summary
- NEW APPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT TREATMENTS
- Long-acting β2-agonists
- Anticholinergics
- Theophylline
- Histone deacetylase
- Antibiotics
- TARGETING COPD PATHOGENESIS
- Anti-inflammatory approaches
- Mediator agonists
- Leukotriene B4 inhibitors
- Transforming Growth Factor β inhibitors
- Chemokine inhibitors
- NFκβ inhibitors
- Antioxidants
- Proteinase inhibitors
- Alveolar repair
- Interventions affecting systemic disease
- Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor treatment
- Therapies that influence muscle mass and function
- Interventions for secondary pulmonary hypertension
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
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