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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-22
pubmed:abstractText
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are the mainstay of asthma therapy; however, major side effects limit their therapeutic use. GCs influence the expression of genes either by transactivation or transrepression. The antiinflammatory effects of steroids are thought to be due to transrepression and the side effects, transactivation. Recently, a compound, RU 24858, has been identified that demonstrated dissociation between transactivation and transrepression in vitro. RU 24858 exerts strong AP-1 inhibition (transrepression), but little or no transactivation. We investigated whether this improved in vitro profile results in the maintenance of antiinflammatory activity (evaluated in the Sephadex model of lung edema) with reduced systemic toxicity (evaluated by loss in body weight, thymus involution, and bone turnover) compared with standard GCs. RU 24858 exhibits comparable antiinflammatory activity to the standard steroid, budesonide. However, the systemic changes observed indicate that transactivation events do occur with this GC with similar potency to the standard steroids. In addition, the GCs profiled showed no differentiation on quantitative osteopenia of the femur. These results suggest that in vitro separation of transrepression from transactivation activity does not translate to an increased therapeutic ratio for GCs in vivo or that adverse effects are a consequence of transrepression.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0022-1767
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
166
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1975-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Administration, Oral, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Anti-Inflammatory Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Bone Diseases, Metabolic, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Budesonide, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Dextrans, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Femur Head, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Glucocorticoids, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Growth Plate, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Hydroxycorticosteroids, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Immunosuppressive Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Intubation, Intratracheal, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Osteocalcin, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Prednisolone, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Pulmonary Edema, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11160246-Transcriptional Activation
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Therapeutic benefit of a dissociated glucocorticoid and the relevance of in vitro separation of transrepression from transactivation activity.
pubmed:affiliation
Aventis Pharma Research & Development, Dagenham Research Centre, Dagenham, Essex, United Kingdom. m.belvisi@ic.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study