Theophylline. A review of its potential steroid sparing effects in asthma

Drugs

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1081-1091

  Markham, A ^a   Faulds, D ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; CIMETIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DILTIAZEM; DISULFIRAM; ENOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ISONIAZID; ISOPRENALINE; NIFEDIPINE; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PIPEMIDIC ACID; PROPRANOLOL; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RANITIDINE; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SALBUTAMOL; SALMETEROL; STEROID; TERBUTALINE; THEOPHYLLINE; TIABENDAZOLE; TROLEANDOMYCIN; VERAPAMIL;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHODILATATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG COST; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG FATALITY; EOSINOPHIL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INSOMNIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PHARMACODYNAMICS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESTLESSNESS; ROSACEA; SEIZURE; SORE THROAT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THEOPHYLLINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREMOR; VOMITING;

EID: 0032436671     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-199856060-00018     Document Type: Article

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