Publication date
June 1999
DOI Publisher
Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia/SPP. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.Abstract
ABSTRACTThe author reviews the concept of asthma and the role of leukotrienes in chronic inflammation of bronchial asthma: bronchoconstrition, bronchial hyperreadivity, increasing of vascular permeability, mucous hypersecretion and cellular infiltration. Phamacological and clinical characteristics of antileukotrienes and their place in the control of asthma are also reviewed.REV PORT PNEVMOL 1999; V (3): 329-33
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