Acute and chronic cough
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Acute and Chronic Cough
This multi-author book has an ambitious title that promises more than the book delivers. The title would lead one to assume that the monograph covers most aspects of the control of breathing and its abnormalities in disease states. Unfortunately, that is not the case, and the coverage is selective, both in the basic physiology and the pathophysiology of the control of breathing. On the other ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1094-5539
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2004.09.017