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A new method for evaluating antitussive medications using the citric acid challenge technique.

John E. Silson
- 04 Mar 1965 - 
- Vol. 5, Iss: 2, pp 94-101
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This article is published in The Journal of new drugs.The article was published on 1965-03-04. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antitussive Agent.

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Codeine and its alternates for pain and cough relief: 3. The antitussive action of codeine—mechanism, methodology and evaluation

TL;DR: This report-the third of a series on codeine and its alternates for pain and cough relief-presents a detailed review of the physiology and pathophysiology of cough, the methods for the experimental and clinical measurement of the antitussive action of drugs, possible mechanisms of action of antitussives agents, and includes a compilation of experimental results and clinical experience with codeine as an antitussIVE.
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Assessment of antitussive effects by citric acid threshold

TL;DR: It is concluded that the citric acid threshold is a simple measure of antitussive activity and no such activity was found with glaucine.
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Latency of cough response as a measure of antitussive agents.

TL;DR: The cough reflex was stimulated in selected healthy male subjects with a single nebulized threshold dose of citric acid and a dose‐response curve was obtained for codeine and dextromethorphan.
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Irritant induced cough as a model of intrapulmonary airway reactivity

T. P. Clay, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1985 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that the reactivity of intrapulmonary airway smooth muscle dictates the cough response following inhalation of a citric acid mist.
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Preclinical and Clinical Investigation of Drugs II. Antitussive Drugs

TL;DR: A review of the literature on antitussives has revealed a series of observations which are not in conformity with the above simple thesis of an action of antitussive drugs on the central nervous system (CNS).
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Objective assessment of cough suppressants under clinical conditions using a tape recorder system.

C. R. Woolf, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1964 - 
TL;DR: A technique which employs the objectivity of cough counting to determine the effect of suppressants on pathological cough is described and levo-propoxyphene,' elixir of terpin hydrate with heroin, and syrup of codeine have been assessed.
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Evaluation of a New Antitussive Agent

TL;DR: A study was undertaken to determine the antitussive effect of this substance clinically, and it was found that the analgesic action of racemorphan resides in its levorotatory component.
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