Combined mediator blockade or topical steroid for treating the unified allergic airway

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-80

  Barnes, M L ^a   Menzies, D ^a   Fardon, T C ^a   Burns, P ^a   Wilson, A M ^a   Lipworth, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergic; Asthma; Bronchial provocation tests; Drug therapy; Perennial; Rhinitis

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; CETIRIZINE; METHACHOLINE; MONTELUKAST; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO; PROTEIN; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETATES; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BECLOMETHASONE; CETIRIZINE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUINOLINES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL;

EID: 33845438891     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: 13989995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2006.01263.x     Document Type: Article

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