New Anti Asthma Drug?

In the following video, Prof. Riccardi and colleagues talk about their findings and a patient with asthma describes her excitement about the potential implications.

Sci Transl Med 22 April 2015: Vol. 7, Issue 284, p. 284ra60 Sci. Transl. Med. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa0282

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

ASTHMA

Calcium-sensing receptor antagonists abrogate airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation in allergic asthma

1. Polina L. Yarova1,*, 
2. Alecia L. Stewart2,*, 
3. Venkatachalem Sathish2,*, 
4. Rodney D. Britt Jr.2,*,
5. Michael A. Thompson2, 
6. Alexander P. P. Lowe4, 
7. Michelle Freeman2, 
8. Bharathi Aravamudan2,
9. Hirohito Kita3, 
10. Sarah C. Brennan1, 
11. Martin Schepelmann1, 
12. Thomas Davies1, 
13. Sun Yung1,
14. Zakky Cholisoh4, 
15. Emma J. Kidd4, 
16. William R. Ford4, 
17. Kenneth J. Broadley4, 
18. Katja Rietdorf5,
19. Wenhan Chang6, 
20. Mohd E. Bin Khayat7, 
21. Donald T. Ward7, 
22. Christopher J. Corrigan8,
23. Jeremy P. T. Ward8, 
24. Paul J. Kemp1, 
25. Christina M. Pabelick2, 
26. Y. S. Prakash2,† and 
27. Daniela Riccardi1,†