The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonist pioglitazone and 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor zileuton have no effect on lung inflammation in healthy volunteers by positron emission tomography in a single-blind placebo-controlled cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Anti-inflammatory drug development efforts for lung disease have been hampered in part by the lack of noninvasive inflammation biomarkers and the limited ability of animal models to predict efficacy in humans. We used 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in...

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Main Authors: Delphine L Chen, Howard J Huang, Derek E Byers, Adrian Shifren, Bryan Belikoff, Jacquelyn T Engle, Elizabeth Arentson, Debra Kemp, Sharon Phillips, David E Scherrer, Hideji Fujiwara, Katherine J Spayd, Frank J Brooks, Richard A Pierce, Mario Castro, Warren Isakow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5802889?pdf=render