Written as a concise clinical reference guide covering the current and future airway disease treatments, this text encompasses: ULLI pathophysiology of respiratory tract diseases/LILIthe methods of measuring airway and clinical responses/LILIthe concepts upon which many treatments are used in COPD and asthma conditions/LILIthe way in which these treatments work, and how new treatments can be discovered and tested in various patient groups/LILIstate-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches in controlling pathophysiological processes in the airways/LILInormal and abnormal physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of the respiratory tract/LILIbasic mechanisms of inflammatory cell activation and pathophysiology in disease/LILItherapeutic ways of controlling inflammation/LILIways of reversing or preventing airflow obstruction, and symptomatic treatments of advanced disease/LI/ULEmphasizing state-of-the-art pharmacological and therapeutic approaches in controlling pathophysiological processes in the airways, Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Airway Disease reviews normal and abnormal physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of the respiratory tract.Covering the basic mechanisms of inflammatory cell activation and pathophysiology in disease, therapeutic ways of controlling inflammation, reversing or preventing airflow obstruction, and symptomatic treatments of advanced disease.