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Mucociliary dysfunction in COPD: effect of current pharmacotherapeutic optionsDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK
Pulm Pharmacol Ther 18:1-8. 2005..Finally, a number of novel targets for the treatment of airway mucociliary dysfunction have been identified, and targeting agents are currently in development...
Mucoactive agents for airway mucus hypersecretory diseasesDuncan F Rogers
Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, United Kingdom
Respir Care 52:1176-93; discussion 1193-7. 2007..It is noteworthy that, of the more complex molecules in development, it is simple inhaled hypertonic saline that is currently receiving the greatest attention as a mucus therapy, primarily in CF...
Physiology of airway mucus secretion and pathophysiology of hypersecretionDuncan F Rogers
Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London, United Kingdom, SW3 6LY
Respir Care 52:1134-46; discussion 1146-9. 2007....
The role of airway secretions in COPD: pathophysiology, epidemiology and pharmacotherapeutic optionsDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, Dovehouse St, London SW3 6LY, UK
COPD 2:341-53. 2005....
Treatment of airway mucus hypersecretionDuncan F Rogers
Section of Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Ann Med 38:116-25. 2006..More information is required on these differences to identify specific therapeutic targets which, in turn, should lead to rational design of anti-hypersecretory drugs for treatment of airway mucus hypersecretion in asthma and COPD...
Airway mucus hypersecretion in asthma: an undervalued pathology?Duncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK
Curr Opin Pharmacol 4:241-50. 2004..There is currently huge research interest in identifying targets involved in inducing mucus abnormalities, which should lead to the rational design of anti-hypersecretory drugs for treatment of airway mucus hypersecretion in asthma...
Airway hypersecretion in allergic rhinitis and asthma: new pharmacotherapyDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, Dovehouse St, London SW3 6LY, UK
Curr Allergy Asthma Rep 3:238-48. 2003..Data from clinical trials with blockers of these targets are awaited with great interest, not only for disease management but also to determine the clinical benefit of selective inhibition of airway hypersecretion...
Pulmonary mucus: Pediatric perspectiveDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
Pediatr Pulmonol 36:178-88. 2003..A significant challenge to the therapeutic progression of these new compounds is effective delivery to the airways in children, with the research effort into development of new compounds matched by advances in inhaler design...
New pharmacotherapy for airway mucus hypersecretion in asthma and COPD: targeting intracellular signaling pathwaysHonYee Lai
Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
J Aerosol Med Pulm Drug Deliv 23:219-31. 2010..This may be accomplished by maximizing airway selectivity, which may be facilitated by appropriate delivery device design...
Mucus hypersecretion in asthma: intracellular signalling pathways as targets for pharmacotherapyHon Yee Lai
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 10:67-76. 2010..This review identifies intracellular signalling pathways as rational targets for treatment of excessive airway mucus production...
Mucoactive drugs for asthma and COPD: any place in therapy?Duncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK
Expert Opin Investig Drugs 11:15-35. 2002..Cost-effective treatment would be in patients with poor lung function who have frequent or prolonged exacerbations or are repeatedly admitted to hospital...
Effect of theophylline on induced sputum inflammatory indices and neutrophil chemotaxis in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseSarah V Culpitt
Department of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:1371-6. 2002..These results suggest that theophylline has antiinflammatory properties that may be useful in the long-term treatment of COPD...
The non-neuronal cholinergic system in the airways: an unappreciated regulatory role in pulmonary inflammation?Catherine R Gwilt
Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, United Kingdom
Pharmacol Ther 115:208-22. 2007..The non-neuronal cholinergic system of airway inflammatory cells represents a previously unappreciated regulatory pathway, with immunomodulatory effects that potentially influence the inflammation of asthma and COPD...
Impaired inhibition by dexamethasone of cytokine release by alveolar macrophages from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseSarah V Culpitt
Department of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 167:24-31. 2003..We conclude that the lack of efficacy of corticosteroids in COPD might be due to the relative steroid insensitivity of macrophages in the respiratory tract...
Pharmacological regulation of the neuronal control of airway mucus secretionDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, SW3 6LY, UK
Curr Opin Pharmacol 2:249-55. 2002..None of these inhibitory options are currently being targeted specifically for therapy of airway hypersecretion...
Comparison of the effects of salmeterol and formoterol in patients with severe asthmaJulia A Nightingale
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK
Chest 121:1401-6. 2002..CONCLUSION: We conclude that the long-acting beta(2)-agonists salmeterol and formoterol improve morning PEF in patients with severe asthma, but that there is no difference in efficacy between the two drugs...
The airway goblet cellDuncan F Rogers
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College, Dovehouse Street, London, SW3 6LY, UK
Int J Biochem Cell Biol 35:1-6. 2003....
Therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the 21st centuryLouise E Donnelly
Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
Drugs 63:1973-98. 2003..The current scarcity of well characterised surrogate markers predicts that long-term studies in large numbers of patients will be needed to monitor changes in disease progression...
Phytoceuticals: the new 'physic garden' for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseSumalatha Grandhi
Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK
Expert Rev Respir Med 1:227-46. 2007..Well-designed clinical trials are required to determine whether these beneficial activities are reproduced in patients, with the prospect that phytoceuticals are the new physic garden for asthma and COPD...
Airway goblet cell hyperplasia in asthma: hypersecretory and anti-inflammatory?Duncan F Rogers
Clin Exp Allergy 32:1124-7. 2002
Novel targets and drugs in inflammatory lung diseaseLouise E Donnelly
Curr Opin Pharmacol 8:219-21. 2008
Proteomic analysis of polymeric salivary mucins: no evidence for MUC19 in human salivaKarine Rousseau
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
Biochem J 413:545-52. 2008..Our results suggest that unlike human saliva, which contains MUC5B, cow, horse and rat saliva are a heterogeneous mixture of Muc5b and Muc19. The functional consequence of these species differences remains to be elucidated...
