Sneeze reflex: Facts and fiction

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 131-141

  Songu, Murat ^a   Cingi, Cemal ^b  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

reflex; sneeze; sneeze reflex; sneezing; trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; REFLEX; RHINITIS; SNEEZING;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ABORTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AORTA DISSECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMMON COLD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMPHYSEMA; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; NONALLERGIC RHINITIS WITH EOSINOPHILIA SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC SNEEZE REFLEX; PNEUMATOCELE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC SNEEZING; REFLEX DISORDER; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RIB FRACTURE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNATIATION REFLEX; SNEEZING; SOCIAL BELIEF; STEROID THERAPY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TUBERCULOSIS; VASOMOTOR RHINITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WALLENBERG SYNDROME;

EID: 68549125389     PISSN: 17534658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753465809340571     Document Type: Review

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