21.   The companies will collaborate on the development of drugs directed at cellular adhesion molecules, which play a key role in many inflammatory diseases.

22.   The companies will also work together over four years to develop antisense drugs to treat diabetes and inflammatory diseases like arthritis and asthma.

23.   The two companies will jointly develop drugs for inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and multiple sclerosis.

24.   Those compounds, in turn, led to medications to relieve inflammatory diseases like arthritis or psoriasis and various skin allergies.

25.   Unlike some other inflammatory diseases, for whichthe population of patients is declining, asthma is afflicting a growing population.

26.   Zabriskie refocused research efforts on AIDS, cancer, central nervous system disorders and inflammatory diseases, focusing on ways to get products to the market faster.

27.   But Salvemini wrote that the synzyme also promises to help scientists understand just how inflammatory diseases do their damage.

28.   In many chronic inflammatory diseases, better explanations have been provided for the associations between disease susceptibility and the histocompatibility antigen carried by an individual.

29.   Leprosy is an inflammatory disease caused by a bacterium, which is transmitted by close contact.

30.   Researchers working with bioengineered mice say they have identified the first gene that increases the risk of developing lupus, a crippling and sometimes fatal inflammatory disease.