Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Diseases The COX-2 Controversy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Harris, Randall E. (Editor), Bittman, R. (Editor), Dasgupta, D. (Editor), Engelhardt, H. (Editor), Flohe, L. (Editor), Herrmann, H. (Editor), Holzenburg, A. (Editor), Nasheuer, H-P (Editor), Rottem, S. (Editor), Wyss, M. (Editor), Zwickl, P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 42
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Cardiology.; Neurology.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cancer Research.

Table of Contents:

• Historical Perspectives
• Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in the 21st Century
• Inflammatory Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
• Nitric Oxide Synthase and Cyclooxygenase Interactions in Cartilage and Meniscus
• Obesity, Inflammation, and Vascular Disease
• Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and the Inflammogenesis of Cancer
• Role of COX-2 in Inflammatory and Degenerative Brain Diseases
• Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease: The Coxib Controversy
• Cardiovascular Effects of the Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors
• COX-2 Inhibitors And Cardiovascular Risk
• A Biological Rationale for the Cardiotoxic Effects of Rofecoxib
• Cox-2 Blockade in Cancer Prevention and Therapy
• Cancer Chemoprevention by Cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) Blockade
• Strategies for Colon Cancer Prevention
• Inflammation and Neurodegenerative Disease
• NSAIDs for the Chemoprevention of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Inflammation in parkinson’s disease
• Nutrition, Inflammation and Chronic Disease
• Essential Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Inflammation, Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
• Nutritional Intervention in Brain Aging.