The physical and biological doses of methacholine are different for Mefar MB3 and Jaeger APS sidestream nebulizers

Chest

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3585-3589

  Praml, Georg ^a,c   Scharrer, Eva ^a   De La Motte, Dorothea ^a   Nowak, Dennis ^a   Scheuch, Gerhard ^b   Sommerer, Knut ^b   Radon, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Inamed GmbH   (Germany)

^c Inst of Occup and Environ Med   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness; Lower Saxony Lung Study; Methacholine; Residual method

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NEBULIZER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 28144431696     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.128.5.3585     Document Type: Article

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