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Muscarinic receptor signaling in the pathophysiology of asthma and COPD
Anticholinergics are widely used for the treatment of COPD, and to a lesser extent for asthma. Primarily used as bronchodilators, they reverse the action of vagally derived acetylcholine on airway smooth muscle contraction. Recent novel studies suggest that the effects of anticholinergics likely ext...
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BioMed Central
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1479816/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16684353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-7-73 |