The Role of Capsaicin-sensitive C-fibre
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J.-A. Karlsson
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier
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English
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While airway rapidly adapting receptors can mediate the cough reflex, much evidence suggests that bronchial C-fibre receptors are also involved in guinea-pigs and man. In man local and systemic C-fibre stimulants have a potent tussive action, which is blocked by low doses of local anaesthetics which