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ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2008

Steroid resistance in asthma: mechanisms and treatment options.

Ian M Adcock, Paul A Ford, Pank Bhavsar, Tehireem Ahmad, Kian Fan Chung

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Review in Current allergy and asthma reports, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Food science and biotechnology · 2025
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  7. Microbiome modifications by steroids during viral exacerbation of asthma and in healthy mice.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
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  10. Role of inflammasome in severe, steroid-resistant asthma.Current research in immunology · 2023
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  19. Cellular mechanisms underlying steroid-resistant asthma.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2019
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  20. Dendritic cell phenotype in severe asthma reflects clinical responsiveness to glucocorticoids.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ian M AdcockCell and Molecular Biology, Airways Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW3 6LY, UK. ian.adcock@imperial.ac.uk
Paul A Ford
Pank Bhavsar
Tehireem Ahmad
Kian Fan Chung
Lung Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucocorticoid insensitivity presents a profound management problem in patients with asthma because conventional therapies are not effective. Glucocorticoids, acting through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), are able to selectively repress inflammatory gene expression by utilizing several distinct mechanisms targeting nuclear factor-varphiB and activator protein-1 activation complexes and by effects on mitogen-activated protein kinases. Different model systems often activate distinct sets of signaling molecules and different glucocorticoid responsiveness may result from differences in concentrations and timing of steroid treatment of cells, GR expression levels, and the precise inflammatory stimulus used. Thus, abnormal activation of many signaling pathways may affect corticosteroid responsiveness in patients with corticosteroid-resistant asthma. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of GR action and inaction may lead to the development of new anti-inflammatory drugs or enable clinicians to reverse the relative steroid-insensitivity that is characteristic of some patients with severe asthma.

Indexed as

Anti-Asthmatic AgentsAsthmaDrug ResistanceGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGlucocorticoidsHumansReceptors, GlucocorticoidSignal TransductionTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAnti-Asthmatic AgentsGlucocorticoidsReceptors, GlucocorticoidTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID18417060
OpenAlexW2004830764

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