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Trial reportPulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics2010

Blockade of airway sensory nerves and dyspnea in humans.

Nausherwan K Burki, Lu-Yuan Lee

Open access · greenAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nausherwan K BurkiDivision of Pulmonary Medicine - MC1321, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06030-1321, USA. nburki@uchc.edu
Lu-Yuan Lee
UConn Health · USUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

Airway sensory nerves and dyspnea in human subjectsR01HL065486 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI BURKI, NAUSHERWAN K · 2002 to 2004
$468k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL-65486NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL065486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence has accumulated from previous studies that vagal fibers in the lungs are involved in the genesis of dyspnea. In a series of human studies, based on our previous animal data (J Physiol 1998; 508:109-18; J Appl Physiol 1998; 84:417-24; J Appl Physiol 2003; 95:1315-24) we established that intravenous adenosine has a dyspnogenic effect (J Appl Physiol 2005; 98:180-5; Respir Res 2006; 7:139; Pulm Pharmacol Ther 2008; 21:208-13), strongly implicating a role for vagal C-fibers in the genesis of dyspnea. We have now analyzed the relative effects of blockade of vagal C-fibers by two methods and routes of delivery: by inhibition of the sodium channel and interruption of action potential conduction in the nerve by inhaled local anesthetic (lidocaine), and by blockade by systemic theophylline, a known, nonselective adenosine receptor antagonist. Both techniques significantly (p < 0.05) attenuated the dyspneic response to intravenous adenosine. However, the attenuation was significantly (p < 0.05) greater with pretreatment with systemic theophylline (mean change in response, DeltaAUC -44%) versus pretreatment with inhaled lidocaine (mean change in response, DeltaAUC -11.8%). These differences in the results of airway sensory nerve blockade probably reflect different populations of C fiber receptors and may explain conflicting results of previous studies of dyspnea and airway anesthesia.

Indexed as

AdolescentAdultAnesthetics, LocalDouble-Blind MethodDyspneaFemaleHumansLidocaineMaleMiddle AgedNerve BlockNerve Fibers, UnmyelinatedPurinergic P1 Receptor AntagonistsSodium ChannelsTheophyllineVagus NerveAnesthetics, LocalLidocainePurinergic P1 Receptor AntagonistsSodium ChannelsTheophylline

Identifiers

PMID20188847
PMCPMC2885590
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