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Immunosuppressive therapy of asthma
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1971Eleven asthmatic men were treated with the antimetabolites thioguanosine or 6-mercaptopurine. Eight completed 12 weeks of treatment. Reversible drug toxicity occurred in 2 patients. Four patients with severe chronic asthma, chronic bronchitis, and continuous wheezing were not improved. Five patients with intermittent asthma of recent onset improved and
T, Asmundsson +3 more
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Immunosuppressive Therapy for Asthma
Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, 1995Over the last four or five years, there have been some serious attempts to look for alternatives to corticosteroids in the management of severe bronchial asthma. Rheumatologists and dermatologists long ago recognized the importance of replacing corticosteroids with other agents.
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Advances in Immunosuppressive Therapy
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2007Despite the intense interest in biological agents, traditional immunosuppressive drugs remain the mainstays of treatment for systemic rheumatic diseases that involve the lung. Herewith, we review the mechanism of action, administration and clinical use of immunosuppressive drugs, including cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil, azathioprine, methotrexate ...
Wendy, Marder, W Joseph, McCune
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Update on immunosuppressive therapy
Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 1998In this review we summarize selected articles that have been published about immunosuppressive agents in the past year. These studies fall into three major categories: 1) use of pulse cyclophosphamide in autoimmune diseases other than systemic lupus erythematosus; 2) use of newer immunosuppressive agents such as cyclosporine and FK506 in a variety of ...
N G, Singer, W J, McCune
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Immunosuppressive drug therapy
Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 1996Intravenous cyclophosphamide therapy for autoimmune disease continues to be the subject of many clinical trials, which in general have strongly supported its use in lupus nephritis but have failed to demonstrate efficacy in severe vasculitis or severe Wegener's granulomatosis.
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Immunosuppressive Therapy in Transplantation
Nursing Clinics of North America, 2016This article discusses immunosuppressive medications used in organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Induction, maintenance, and rescue therapy are administered throughout different periods during and after transplantation to modulate the immune system response in the recipient to prevent or treat rejection or graft-versus-host disease ...
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Opioid Therapy and Immunosuppression
American Journal of Therapeutics, 2004The idea that opioids modulate the immune system is not new. By the late 19th century, Cantacuzene, used morphine to suppress cellular immunity and lower the resistance of guinea pigs to bacterial infection. While exogenous opioids mediate immunosuppression, endogenous opiates exert opposite actions.
Ricardo, Vallejo +2 more
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IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY IN DIABETES
The Lancet, 1985R D, Leslie, D A, Pyke, A M, Denman
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Immunosuppression in uveitis therapy
Springer Seminars in Immunopathology, 1999R N, Van Gelder, H J, Kaplan
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