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Therapeutic aspects of mucociliary clearance
1Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation, INSERM U 226, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France.
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & Pharmacotherapie
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Measurements of mucociliary activity are still very approximate. It is therefore difficult to determine the particular effect of certain drugs on patients and on experimental animals. Adrenergic drugs increase ciliary efficiency; local anesthetics, barbiturates and narcotics strongly depress ciliary action. Further research is required on mucociliary clearance mechanisms.