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Molecular Interventions 1:30-38 (2001)
© 2001 American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Review

Selective Inhibitors of Cyclooxygenase-2

A Growing Class of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

Issam A. Mardini,* and Garret A. FitzGerald

Center for Experimental Therapeutics and
* Department of Anesthesia University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA

Correspondence: Address correspondence to GAF. E-mail garret{at}spirit.gcrc.upenn.edu; fax 215-573-9135.


For about two years, selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 have been hailed as powerful additions to the armamentarium of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Predicted by financial analysts to become among the pharmaceutical industry's greatest-ever blockbusters, two so-called coxibs are now widely utilized clinically: rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) and celecoxib (Celebrex, Monsanto). The clinical advantages of the coxibs over traditional NSAIDs are related to the distinct roles played by cyclooxygenase-2 in comparison to its earlier described isoform, cyclooxygenase-1. Ongoing research into the disparate roles of the two isoforms will have implications not only for the pharmaceutical use of coxibs, but also for our basic appreciation of inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and more.




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