title: Daclizumab: a potential asthma therapy?
abstract: Airways inflammation in asthma is triggered and maintained by CD4+ (Th2) cells which are activated by IL-2 and stimulate the eosinophilic inflammation, IgE secretion and mucus hyperproduction. Current anti-inflammatory therapies include inhaled corticosteroids, and leukotriene modifiers but they are not universally effective. IL-2 pathway inhibition might represent a potent anti-inflammatory therapy in asthma given the cytokine early role in the asthma complex inflammatory cascade and daclizumab which is a IL-2R blocker currently used as an immunsupressor in organ transplantation might be a potential asthma therapy. This is review on the pathogenic role of IL-2, on the therapeutic potential of daclizumab and on its related patents.
authors.affiliation: Gr T Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iaşi, Department of Medicine II -Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary University Hospital, 30 Dr I Cihac Str, 700115 Iasi, Romania. sabina.antonela.antoniu@pneum.umfiasi.ro
authors.forename: Sabina A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Antoniu
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D000077561:Daclizumab; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000276:immunology*; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D010330:Patents as Topic; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000276:immunology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents; D007376:Interleukin-2; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2; D000077561:Daclizumab