Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Cough

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chung, Kian Fan (Editor), Widdicombe, John (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 187
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Pharmacology.; Allergy.; Internal medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology.; Allergology.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Internal Medicine.

The last decade or so has seen remarkable advances in our knowledge of cough. This applies especially to its basic mechanisms: the types of airway sensors, the phar- cological receptors on their membranes, the brainstem organization of the ‘cough centre’, and the involvement of the cerebral cortex i...