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Recent findings on the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma. Part I. Asthma as a neurohumoral disorder, a pathological vago-vagal axon reflex.
Acta physiologica Hungarica - 1 Mar 2009
Székely J I, Pataki A
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The novel data on the pathogenesis of asthma are summarized in this three-part review. Its immunological background is well established but it is more than an immunological disorder. Multiple lines indicate that both peripheral and central neural mechanisms are also involved in the pathogenesis of asthma. In the present first part of the review asthma is described as vago-vagal axon reflex brought about by...
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