Workshop: Tuning the 'cough center'

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 344-352

  Widdicombe, J ^a   Tatar, M ^b   Fontana, G ^c   Hanacek, J ^b   Davenport, P ^d   Lavorini, F ^c   Bolser, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University Hospital in Martin   (Slovakia)

^c Dept Int Med ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cough; Exercise; Expiration reflex; Gastro oesophageal reflux; Urge to cough

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CLOVE OIL; MENTHOL; SESAME SEED OIL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; COUGHING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; LUNG; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEROTYPE; WORKSHOP;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; COUGH; HUMANS; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 79955719873     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: 15229629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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