Hydrocortisone as Antiallergic Drug

Salam Abed Muhammad

doi:10.55544/jrasb.3.1.50

Authors

Salam Abed Muhammad Department of Salah al-Din Health, Ministry of Health, IRAQ.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55544/jrasb.3.1.50

Keywords:

Glucocorticoids, Hydrocortisone, antiallergic drug

Abstract

Glucocorticoids are widely used for the suppression of inflammation in chronic inflammatory diseases such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune diseases, all of which are associated with increased expression of inflammatory genes. The molecular mechanisms involved in this anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids is discussed, particularly in asthma, which accounts for the highest clinical use of these agents.

Glucocorticoids bind to glucocorticoid receptors in the cytoplasm which then dimerize and translocate to the nucleus, where they bind to glucocorticoid response elements (GRE) on glucocorticoid-responsive genes, resulting in increased transcription. Glucocorticoids may increase the transcription of genes coding for anti-inflammatory proteins, including lipocortin-1, interleukin-10, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist and neutral endopeptidase, but this is unlikely to account for all of the widespread anti-inflammatory actions of glucocorticoids.^[3]

The most striking effect of glucocorticoids is to inhibit the expression of multiple inflammatory genes.^[3]

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