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Impaired urge-to-cough in elderly patients with aspiration pneumonia

BACKGROUND: The down-regulation of the cough reflex in patients with aspiration pneumonia can involve both cortical facilitatory pathways for cough and medullary reflex pathways. In order to study the possible involvement of the supramedullary system in the down-regulation of cough reflex, we evalua...

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Autores principales: Yamanda, Shinsuke, Ebihara, Satoru, Ebihara, Takae, Yamasaki, Miyako, Asamura, Takaaki, Asada, Masanori, Une, Kaori, Arai, Hiroyuki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19019213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-9974-4-11