Therapeutic Strategies for Modulating the Inflammatory Diseases

ISBN-13: 9783764356903 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 111 str.

Inflammation Research Association; L. Marshall; B. M. Weichman

Spis treści

Targets in cytokine activation.- ICE family proteases in inflammation and apoptosis.- Molecular mechanisms of costimulation.- CD40 and its ligand in cell-mediated immunity.- A role for inflammatory cytokines in the productive activation of antigen-specific CD4+ T-cells.- The complexity of the B7-CD28/CTLA-4 costimulatory pathway.- Symposium new drugs for inflammatory, allergic and immunologie disease.- Cartilage protective agent (CPA) Ro 32-3555, a new matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.- Immunomodulation of Crohn’s disease by Interleukin-10.- Ro 45-2081, a TNF receptor fusion protein, prevents inflammatory responses in the airways.- I Summaries of workshops and poster discussions.- Pulmonary inflammation.- New drugs for inflammatory diseases.- Cartilage and bone.- Transcriptional regulation and inflammation.- Cytokines/apoptosis.- New technologies and rational drug design.- Chemokines.- Intracellular signaling processes.- Immunology of inflammation.- Lipid and peptide mediators and their enzymes.