Effect of oral mexiletine on the cough response to capsaicin and tartaric acid

Thorax

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-128

  Fujimura, Masaki ^a   Kamio, Yumie ^b   Myou, Shigeharu ^a   Hashimoto, Takuma ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Cough response; Mexiletine; Tartaric acid

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; HISTAMINE; MEXILETINE; TARTARIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE FIBER C; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; CAPSAICIN; COUGH; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEXILETINE; PLACEBOS; TARTRATES;

EID: 0034063949     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.55.2.126     Document Type: Article

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