Anticholinergic activity of antihistamines

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 633-634

  Yanai, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIVASTINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CETIRIZINE; DESLORATADINE; FEXOFENADINE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR; LEVOCETIRIZINE; LORATADINE; PROMETHAZINE;

AGITATION; ALLERGY; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DIPLOPIA; DROWSINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYDRIASIS; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; TREMOR; URINE RETENTION; XEROSTOMIA;

FEMALE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS, NON-SEDATING; HUMANS; LORATADINE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PROMETHAZINE;

EID: 84857784121     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.09.005     Document Type: Editorial

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