Evaluation of combination long-acting β-2 agonists and inhaled glucocorticosteroids for treatment of asthma

Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism and Toxicology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 933-940

  Kim, Dennis ^a   Glaum, Mark ^b   Lockey, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine and Pediatrics ^*

^c Divisions of Allergy and Immunology

Author keywords

Asthma; Budesonide; Fluticasone propionate; Formoterol fumarate dihydrate; Salmeterol xinafoate

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; BUDESONIDE; BUDESONIDE PLUS FORMOTEROL; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE PLUS SALMETEROL; FORMOTEROL; FOSTER; LONG ACTING DRUG; MACROLIDE; MONTELUKAST; PLACEBO; SALBUTAMOL; SALMETEROL; TERBUTALINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BINDING AFFINITY; BRONCHODILATATION; CATARACT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPHONIA; ENTERITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MONOTHERAPY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINUSITIS; THROAT IRRITATION; THRUSH; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2;

EID: 68149171623     PISSN: 17425255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17425250903127226     Document Type: Review

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