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The safety and efficacy of inhaled dry powder mannitol as a bronchial provocation test for airway hyperresponsiveness: a phase 3 comparison study with hypertonic (4.5%) saline

BACKGROUND: Inhaled mannitol is a new bronchial provocation test (BPT) developed to improve portability and standardisation of osmotic challenge testing. Osmotic challenge tests have an advantage over the traditional methods of measuring airway hyperresponsiveness using methacholine as they demonstr...

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Autores principales: Brannan, John D, Anderson, Sandra D, Perry, Clare P, Freed-Martens, Ruth, Lassig, Anna R, Charlton, Brett
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16336673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-6-144