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. 2016 Feb 28;10(3):211–234. doi: 10.1177/1753465816632638

Table 3.

Treatments targeting noneosinophilic airway inflammation in asthma.

Nonpharmacological interventions
Avoidance from exposure to environmental and occupational pollutants
Smoking cessation
Dietary supplementation with vitamin D3
‘Off-label’ use of licensed drugs
Macrolides
Statins
Low-dose theophylline
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) agonists
Novel small molecule drugs
Drugs targeting neutrophilic inflammation
C-X-C chemokine receptor (CXCR)2 antagonists
5-lipoxygenase-activating protein (FLAP) inhibitors
Phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors
PDE4 inhibitors
Dual PDE3 and PDE4 inhibitors
Protein kinase inhibitors
p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) inhibitors
Narrow spectrum kinase inhibitors
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Phosphoinositide 3 (PI3)-kinase inhibitors
PI3K-δ inhibitors
Dual PI3Kδ/γ inhibitors
Biological agents
Interleukin (IL)-17A receptor blockers
IL-17A blockers
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α receptor blockers
IL-1β monoclonal antibody blockers
Soluble IL-1 receptor monoclonal antibody blockers
IL-6 monoclonal antibody blockers