Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease

Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease is a concise clinical reference guide covering current and emerging airway disease treatments. Emphasizing state-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches, Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease reviews normal and abnormal physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of the respiratory tract.

This resource explores:

• measuring airway and clinical responses and controlling airway pathophysiological processes
• basic mechanisms of inflammatory cell activation and pathophysiology in disease
• therapeutic ways of controlling inflammation
• how COPD and asthma treatments work
• reversing or preventing airflow obstruction
• symptomatic treatments of advanced disease
• how new treatments are discovered and tested in various patient groups