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New drug treatment for diarrhoea
M Donowitz1, S Levine, A Watson
1Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Journal of Internal Medicine. Supplement
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
This paper reviews the scientific background to the development of new drugs for the treatment of diarrhoeal diseases, and it includes an update of three classes of drugs which may prove useful; gut specific alpha2-adrenergic agonists, intestinal Cl- channel blockers, and somatostatin analogues.