Therapeutics for Lower Respiratory Tract Disease

This abstract gives an overview of the available pharmaceutical interventions for recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) and inflammatory airway disease (IAD) with selected examples grouped in Table 1. The table below is of course not exhaustive. Interesting new approaches continue to be explored. Of note, horses with RAO or IAD fed low dust diets showed additional improvement with omega-3 FA supplementation for 2 weeks [9]. A novel phytotherapeutic product (benefit of ‘not being doping’) is based on inhaled curcumin and may decrease neutrophilic airway inflammation [10]. Perhaps the most innovative approach, but also furthest from practical application, is the use of cytosine-phosphate-guanosine-oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN) bound to gelatin nanoparticles, which has ...