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Madzia A, Agrawal C, Jarit P, Petterson S, Plancher K, Ortiz R. Sustained Acoustic Medicine Combined with A Diclofenac Ultrasound Coupling Patch for the Rapid Symptomatic Relief of Knee Osteoarthritis: Multi-Site Clinical Efficacy Study. Open Orthop J 2020; 14:176-185. [PMID: 33408796 PMCID: PMC7784557 DOI: 10.2174/1874325002014010176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Sustained Acoustic Medicine (SAM) is an emerging, non-invasive, non-narcotic, home-use ultrasound therapy for the daily treatment of joint pain. The aim of this multi-site clinical study was to examine the efficacy of long-duration continuous ultrasound combined with a 1% diclofenac ultrasound gel patch in treating pain and improving function in patients with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) were followed. Thirty-two (32) patients (18-males, 14-females) 54 years of average age with moderate to severe knee pain and radiographically confirmed knee osteoarthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade II/III) were enrolled for treatment with the SAM device and diclofenac patch applied daily to the treated knee. SAM ultrasound (3 MHz, 0.132 W/cm2, 1.3 W) and 6 grams of 1% diclofenac were applied with a wearable device for 4 hours daily for 1 week, delivering 18,720 Joules of ultrasound energy per treatment. The primary outcome was the daily change in pain intensity using a numeric rating scale (NRS 0-10), which was assessed prior to intervention (baseline, day 1), before and after each daily treatment, and after 1 week of daily treatment (day 7). Rapid responders were classified as those patients exhibiting greater than a 1-point reduction in pain following the first treatment. Change in Western Ontario McMaster Osteoarthritis Questionnaire (WOMAC) score from baseline to day 7 was the secondary functional outcome measure. Additionally, a series of daily usability and user experience questions related to devising ease of use, functionality, safety, and effectiveness, were collected. Data were analyzed using t-tests and repeated measure ANOVAs. RESULTS The study had a 94% retention rate, and there were no adverse events or study-related complaints across 224 unique treatment sessions. Rapid responders included 75% of the study population. Patients exhibited a significant mean NRS pain reduction over the 7-day study of 2.06-points (50%) for all subjects (n=32, p<0.001) and 2.96-points (70%) for rapid responders (n=24, p<0.001). The WOMAC functional score significantly improved by 351 points for all subjects (n=32, p<0.001), and 510 points for rapid responders (n=24, p<0.001). Over 95% of patients found the device safe, effective and easy to use, and would continue treatment for their knee OA symptoms. CONCLUSION Sustained Acoustic Medicine combined with 1% topical diclofenac rapidly reduced pain and improved function in patients with moderate to severe osteoarthritis-related knee pain. The clinical findings suggest that this treatment approach may be used as a conservative, non-invasive treatment option for patients with knee osteoarthritis. Additional research is warranted on non-weight bearing joints of the musculoskeletal system as well as different topical drugs that could benefit from improved localized delivery.Clinical Trial Registry Number: (NCT04391842).
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- Alex Madzia
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA
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- Sport and Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, Fairfield, CT 06824, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, New York, USA
- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 13053, USA
- Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, New York, NY 13053, USA
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- Medical Pain Consultants, Dryden, NY 13053, USA
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Douzi W, Guillot X, Bon D, Seguin F, Boildieu N, Wendling D, Tordi N, Dupuy O, Dugué B. 1H-NMR-Based Analysis for Exploring Knee Synovial Fluid Metabolite Changes after Local Cryotherapy in Knee Arthritis Patients. Metabolites 2020; 10:metabo10110460. [PMID: 33202890 PMCID: PMC7696760 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10110460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Rehabilitation using cryotherapy has widely been used in inflammatory diseases to relieve pain and decrease the disease activity. The aim of this study was to explore the metabolite changes in inflammatory knee-joint synovial fluids following local cryotherapy treatment (ice or cold CO2). We used proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy to assess the metabolite patterns in synovial fluid (SF) in patients with knee arthritis (n = 46) before (D0) and after (D1, 24 h later) two applications of local cryotherapy. Spectra from aqueous samples and organic extracts were obtained with an 11.75 Tesla spectrometer. The metabolite concentrations within the SF were compared between D1 and D0 using multiple comparisons with the application of a false discovery rate (FDR) adjusted at 10% for each metabolite. A total of 32 metabolites/chemical structures were identified including amino acids, organic acids, fatty acids or sugars. Pyruvate, alanine, citrate, threonine was significantly higher at D1 vs D0 (p < 0.05). Tyrosine concentration significantly decreases after cryotherapy application (p < 0.001). We did not observe any effect of gender and cooling technique on metabolite concentrations between D0 and D1 (p > 0.05). The present study provides new insight into a short-term effect of cold stimulus in synovial fluid from patients with knee arthritis. Our observations suggest that the increased level of metabolites involved in energy metabolism may explain the underlying molecular pathways that mediate the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory capacities of cryotherapy.
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- Wafa Douzi
- Laboratoire «Mobilité, Vieillissement, Exercice (MOVE)–EA6314», Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Université de Poitiers, 8 Allée Jean Monnet, 86000 Poitiers, France; (W.D.); (O.D.)
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- Department of Rheumatology, Felix Guyon University Hospital, 97400 Saint-Denis, France;
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- INSERM U1082, (IRTOMIT), Poitiers, France and Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Poitiers, 86000 Poitiers, France; (D.B.); (F.S.); (N.B.)
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- INSERM U1082, (IRTOMIT), Poitiers, France and Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Poitiers, 86000 Poitiers, France; (D.B.); (F.S.); (N.B.)
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- INSERM U1082, (IRTOMIT), Poitiers, France and Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Poitiers, 86000 Poitiers, France; (D.B.); (F.S.); (N.B.)
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- Department of Rheumatology, CHRU de Besançon, Boulevard Fleming, F-25030 Besançon, France;
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- PEPITE EA4267, (EPSI), University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000 Besançon, France;
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- Laboratoire «Mobilité, Vieillissement, Exercice (MOVE)–EA6314», Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Université de Poitiers, 8 Allée Jean Monnet, 86000 Poitiers, France; (W.D.); (O.D.)
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- Laboratoire «Mobilité, Vieillissement, Exercice (MOVE)–EA6314», Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Université de Poitiers, 8 Allée Jean Monnet, 86000 Poitiers, France; (W.D.); (O.D.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +33-549-454-040; Fax: +33-549-453-396
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Aikawa E, Shimizu T, Koga T, Endo Y, Umeda M, Hori T, Irie J, Kuroda K, Eguchi M, Okamoto M, Tsuji S, Takatani A, Igawa T, Sumiyoshi R, Kawashiri SY, Iwamoto N, Ichinose K, Tamai M, Nakamura H, Origuchi T, Kawakami A. Atypical Familial Mediterranean Fever Complicated with Gastrointestinal Amyloidosis Diagnosed due to Paroxysmal Arthralgia and Intractable Diarrhea, Successfully Treated with Tocilizumab. Intern Med 2019; 58:1781-1785. [PMID: 30713308 PMCID: PMC6630114 DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.2277-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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A 53-year-old man with recurrent episodes of large joint pain and a low-grade fever at irregular intervals for 16 years developed right knee and ankle arthralgia, watery diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Following an ileum and colon biopsy, he was diagnosed with gastrointestinal amyloidosis. We suspected familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) based on his history and administered colchicine; his symptoms subsequently improved. Thus, he was diagnosed with atypical FMF. After tocilizumab administration, the amyloid deposits disappeared. This case suggests that physicians should consider FMF even in cases with atypical symptoms in order to prevent the progression of amyloidosis and that amyloid deposits can be eliminated by interleukin (IL)-6 inhibition.
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- Erika Aikawa
- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
- Clinical Research Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
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Guillot X, Tordi N, Prati C, Verhoeven F, Pazart L, Wendling D. Cryotherapy decreases synovial Doppler activity and pain in knee arthritis: A randomized-controlled trial. Joint Bone Spine 2017; 84:477-483. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Księżopolska-Orłowska K, Pacholec A, Jędryka-Góral A, Bugajska J, Sadura-Sieklucka T, Kowalik K, Pawłowska-Cyprysiak K, Łastowiecka-Moras E. Complex rehabilitation and the clinical condition of working rheumatoid arthritis patients: does cryotherapy always overtop traditional rehabilitation? Disabil Rehabil 2016; 38:1034-40. [DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2015.1060265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Guillot X, Tordi N, Mourot L, Demougeot C, Dugué B, Prati C, Wendling D. Cryotherapy in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a systematic review. Expert Rev Clin Immunol 2013; 10:281-94. [PMID: 24345205 DOI: 10.1586/1744666x.2014.870036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The aim of this article was to review current evidence about cryotherapy in inflammatory rheumatic diseases (therapeutic and biological effects). For therapeutic effects, we performed a systematic review (PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, LILACS databases, unpublished data) and selected studies including non-operated and non-infected arthritic patients treated with local cryotherapy or whole-body cryotherapy. By pooling 6 studies including 257 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, we showed a significant decrease in pain visual analogic scale (mm) and 28-joint disease activity score after chronic cryotherapy in RA patients. For molecular pathways, local cryotherapy induces an intrajoint temperature decrease, which might downregulate several mediators involved in joint inflammation and destruction (cytokines, cartilage-degrading enzymes, proangiogenic factors), but studies in RA are rare. Cryotherapy should be included in RA therapeutic strategies as an adjunct therapy, with potential corticosteroid and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug dose-sparing effects. However, techniques and protocols should be more precisely defined in randomized controlled trials with stronger methodology.
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- Xavier Guillot
- Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Besançon, boulevard Fleming, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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Stellenwert und Bedeutung der physikalischen Medizin im Kontext der konservativen Therapie bei rheumatologischen Patienten. DER ORTHOPADE 2013; 42:813-21. [DOI: 10.1007/s00132-013-2109-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A multimodal treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases without physical medicine is almost always incomplete. The mechanisms underlying the positive effects of physical medicine are only partially understood. Modern molecular medicine offers new insights into pivotal mechanisms and mediators of the inflammatory process and into interactions between cells of the immune system and the bone. Investigating the potential influences of different methods of physical medicine on the central regulatory processes of inflammatory rheumatic diseases is of great interest, highly fascinating and opens up new avenues of research for the future. This article focuses on the first novel results of molecular physical medicine in rheumatic and degenerative diseases.
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- U Lange
- Internistische Rheumatologie, Osteologie, Physikalische Medizin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Benekestr. 2-8, 61231, Bad Nauheim, Deutschland.
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Demoulin C, Vanderthommen M. Cryotherapy in rheumatic diseases. Joint Bone Spine 2012; 79:117-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2011.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hammer HB, Kvien TK. Ultrasonography shows significant improvement in wrist and ankle tenosynovitis in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with adalimumab. Scand J Rheumatol 2010; 40:178-82. [PMID: 21091275 DOI: 10.3109/03009742.2010.517549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Tenosynovitis is common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but knowledge is limited regarding its response to anti-inflammatory treatment. This study used ultrasonography (US) to examine the distribution and responsiveness of tenosynovitis to anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) treatment in RA patients. METHODS Twenty patients with RA were examined at baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after starting adalimumab treatment, and grey-scale (GS) and power Doppler (PD) US scoring (semi-quantitative range 0-3) of wrist and ankle tendons was performed in addition to assessment of the 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28), C-reactive protein (CRP), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). RESULTS The extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) tendon in the wrists and the closely related tendons tibialis posterior (TB) and flexor digitorum longus (FDL) in the ankles were most often inflamed. Median sum scores for this reduced number of tendons at baseline/12-month follow-up were 5/0.5 for GS (p < 0.001) and 4/0 for PD (p < 0.05), with reductions in the US scores during follow-up as large as those found for sum scores of all tendons. The standardized response means (SRMs) for sum GS or PD scores of the reduced number of tendons were higher (range -0.53 to -0.93) than for the sum scores of all tendons (-0.23 to -0.74), and showed larger responsiveness than CRP (-0.10 to -0.43) and ESR (-0.03 to -0.71). CONCLUSION Bilateral assessments of ECU, TB, and FDL tendons were as sensitive to change as the sum scores of all tendons, and scoring of this reduced number of tendons is suggested to be included in US scorings for follow-up of RA patients.
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- H B Hammer
- Department of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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Whitehouse MW. Anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid drugs: reflections after 60 years. Inflammopharmacology 2010; 19:1-19. [PMID: 21072600 DOI: 10.1007/s10787-010-0056-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2010] [Accepted: 09/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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This review considers the problem of the serious concomitant side effects of powerful anti-inflammatory drugs modelled upon the principal human glucocorticoid hormone, cortisol. The very nature of the original bio-assays to validate their cortisol-like hormonal and anti-inflammatory activities ensured that pleiotropic toxins were selected for clinical studies. Other complicating factors have been (1) considerable reliance on bio-assays conducted in laboratory animals that primarily secrete corticosterone, not cortisol, as their principal anti-inflammatory adrenal hormone; (2) some differences in the binding of xenobiotic cortisol analogues (vis á vis cortisol) to transport proteins, detoxifying enzymes and even some intra-cellular receptors; (3) the "rogue" properties of these hormonal xenobiotics, acting independently of--but still able to suppress--hormonal mechanisms regulating endogenous cortisol; and (4) problems of intrinsic/acquired "steroid resistance", diminishing their clinical efficacy, but not necessarily all their toxicities. The rather gloomy conclusion is that devising new drugs to reproduce the effect of multi-potent hormones may be a recipe for disaster, in contexts other than simply remedying an endocrine deficiency. Promising new developments include "designed" combination therapies that allow some reduction in total steroid doses (and hopefully their side effects); sharpening strategies to limit the actual duration of steroid administration; and resurgent interest in searching for more selective analogues (both steroidal and non-steroid) with less harmful side effects. Some oversights and neglected areas of research are also considered. Overall, it now seems timely to engage in some drastic rethinking about (retaining?) these "licensed toxins" as fundamental therapies for chronic inflammation.
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