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TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 36, Issue 11, Pages 737-755Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2015.07.007
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- Wellcome Trust [086867/Z/08/Z]
- Medical Research Council UK [MR/K013068/1]
- British Heart Foundation UK
- Medical Research Council [MR/K013068/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/K013068/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Current medicines for the clinical management of inflammatory diseases act by inhibiting specific enzymes or antagonising specific receptors or blocking their ligands. In the past decade, a new paradigm in our understanding of the inflammatory process has emerged with the appreciation of genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms that are engaged to actively resolve inflammation. The 'resolution of acute inflammation' is enabled by counter-regulatory checkpoints to terminate the inflammatory reaction, promoting healing and repair. It may be possible to harness this knowledge for innovative approaches to the treatment of inflammatory pathologies. Here we discuss current translational attempts to develop agonists at proresolving targets as a strategy to rectify chronic inflammatory status. We reason this new approach will lead to the identification of better drugs that will establish a new branch of pharmacology, 'resolution pharmacology'.
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