Acute and Chronic Cough

Anthony E. Redington, Alyn H. Morice

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040175248
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Pharmacology

A comprehensive review of the scientific and clinical aspects of acute and chronic cough, this reference focuses on recent developments in our understanding of the molecular biology of putative cough receptors, the neural mechanisms involved in the afferent and efferent limbs, the central processing of the cough reflex, and peptides and other subst

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• LUNG BIOLOGY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Preface
• Contributors
• Contents
• 1 Molecular Biology of TRPV1 and Related Receptors
• 2 Afferent Pathways Regulating the Cough Reflex
• 3 Central Cough Mechanisms: Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology
• 4 Role of Tachykinins in Cough
• 5 ACE Inhibitor-Induced Cough: Lessons from Animal Models
• 6 Pharmacology of Putative Cough Receptors
• 7 Pharmacological Modulation of the Cough Reflex and Development of New Antitussives
• 8 Analysis of the Cough Sound
• 9 Capsaicin Inhalation Cough Challenge
• 10 Acid Inhalation Cough Challenge
• 11 Water Aerosols and Cough
• 12 Acute Cough: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Treatment
• 13 Systematic Evaluation of Chronic Cough
• 14 The Pathogenesis of Cough in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
• 15 Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease-Related Chronic Cough
• 16 Cough-Variant Asthma
• 17 Eosinophilic Bronchitis
• 18 Upper Airway Causes of Chronic Cough
• 19 Psychogenic Cough
• 20 Cough Reflex Sensitivity in Health and Disease
• 21 Cough and Gender
• 22 Impact of Cough on Health Status
• 23 Chronic Cough in Children
• Index