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Beta-2 agonists for the treatment of bronchiolitis

Medwave, 2020
INTRODUCCIÓN La bronquiolitis es la inflamación aguda de las vías aéreas de pequeño calibre, teniendo como causa principal las infecciones virales. Es altamente frecuente en menores de dos años, sobretodo en menores de 12 meses. Existe gran controversia
Constanza Gómez, Gonzalo Alarcón, Lorena Cifuentes   +2 more
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Pharmacologic Therapies for Preventing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations: A Comprehensive Review [PDF]

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive respiratory disorder characterized by acute exacerbations that accelerate disease progression, increase hospitalizations, and elevate mortality.
Hyun Woo Lee
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Long-acting Inhaled Bronchodilator and Risk of Vascular Events in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Taiwan Population

Medicine, 2015
A combination of long-acting anticholinergic agents (LAACs) and long-acting &bgr;2-adrenergic receptor agonist (LABA) is effective in improving lung function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) compared with monotherapy.
M. Tsai, Chung-Yu Chen, Yaw-Bin Huang, Hsiao-Chung Chao, Chih-Jen Yang, Pei-Jin Lin, Y. Tsai   +6 more
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An update on the use of indacaterol in patients with COPD

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2011
Current guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) establish that bronchodilator medications are central to the symptomatic treatment of the disease.
Nadia S. Brienza, Óscar Amor-Carro, David Ramos-Barbón   +2 more
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Overprescription of short-acting β2 agonists: reflections from the SABINA study in Brazil

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Objective: To assess prescription patterns for short-acting b2 agonists (SABAs) and other asthma medications in asthma patients treated by specialists and participating in the SABA use IN Asthma (SABINA) study in Brazil.
Martti Anton Antila, Adelmir Souza-Machado, Marcelo Gervilla Gregório, Álvaro A Cruz, Luciene Angelini, Maarten J H I Beekman, Gilmar Alves Zonzin, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi   +7 more
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Calcium and potassium channels are involved in curcumin relaxant effect on tracheal smooth muscles

Pharmaceutical Biology, 2020
Context Curcumin, the active component of Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae), exhibits a wide variety of biological activities including vasodilation and anti-inflammation.
Bahman Emami, Farzaneh Shakeri, Zahra Gholamnezhad, Saeideh Saadat, Marzie Boskabady, Vahab Azmounfar, Hamed Sadatfaraji, Mohammad Hossein Boskabady   +7 more
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Novel small airway bronchodilator responses to rosiglitazone in mouse lung slices.

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 2014
There is a need to identify novel agents that elicit small airway relaxation when β2-adrenoceptor agonists become ineffective in difficult-to-treat asthma.
J. Bourke, Y. Bai, C. Donovan, J. Esposito, X. Tan, M. Sanderson   +5 more
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Structure and Dynamics of the M3 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor

Nature, 2012
Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be identified, exerts many of its physiological actions via activation of a family of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) known as muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs). Although the five mAChR subtypes (
A. Kruse, Jianxin Hu, Albert C. Pan, Daniel H Arlow, D. Rosenbaum, Erica Rosemond, Hillary F. Green, Tong Liu, P. S. Chae, R. Dror, D. Shaw, W. Weis, J. Wess, B. Kobilka   +13 more
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Patterns and Trends in the Use of Medications for COPD Control in a Cohort of 9476 Colombian Patients, 2017–2019

International Journal of COPD, 2023
Manuel Enrique Machado-Duque,1,2 Andrés Gaviria-Mendoza,1,2 Luis Fernando Valladales-Restrepo,1,2 Andrés González-Rangel,3 Maria Eugenia Laucho-Contreras,3,4 Jorge Enrique Machado-Alba1 1Grupo de Investigación en Farmacoepidemiología y Farmacovigilancia,
Machado-Duque ME, Gaviria-Mendoza A, Valladales-Restrepo LF, González-Rangel A, Laucho-Contreras ME, Machado-Alba JE   +5 more
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The role of bronchodilator treatment in the prevention of exacerbations of COPD

European Respiratory Journal, 2012
Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are natural events in the progression of the disease, and are characterised by acute worsening of symptoms, especially dyspnoea. These heterogeneous events follow increased airway inflammation,
J. Wedzicha, M. Decramer, T. Seemungal
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