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Bitter Taste May Battle Asthma
Scientific American People with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other breathing disorders need fast relief when their airways tighten up. Unfortunately, the most commonly used medication has obnoxious side effects. But scientists recently discovered that … |
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Bitter substances block calcium channels, which can relax the tissue that tightens up during asthma attacks. Sophie Bushwick reports.
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Asthma Cure: Taste Buds In Your Lungs?
Ivanhoe Broadcast News What researchers have just discovered is that similar receptors lie inside the lungs and could someday lead to more effective treatments for asthma. Everybody's got'em. Taste receptors on the tongue that help us distinguish between the bitter, sweet, … |
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ATS: What's Bitter to Taste Might Ease Tight Airways
MedPage Today DENVER — What's bitter on the tongue may be sweet relief to people suffering from asthma and COPD, a researcher said here. A wide-ranging analysis of genes expressed in lung tissue has … Researchers a step closer to find new class of asthma, COPD drugs Researchers move closer to identifying new class of asthma, COPD drugs Bitter May Be Better When It Comes to Bronchodilation |
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Taste Buds in the Lungs May Help Asthmatics Breathe Easier
EmpowHer For people with asthma, these smooth muscles in the airway sometimes suddenly contract or tighten which makes the opening in the airway smaller so it is … |
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Newly discovered taste buds hold cure for asthma
Natural News.com Asthma and many other debilitating respiratory conditions afflict their victim through progressive lung airway contraction. Conventional treatment in turn … |
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) — Bitter taste receptors are located
in the lungs as well as on the tongue, a finding that might lead to
improved treatments for asthma and other obstructive lung diseases,
according to researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
in Baltimore.
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Taste buds found in lungs could ease asthma
Car Rentals New medicines for asthma could be in the pipeline due to a discovery of “taste receptors” in the lungs as well as on the tongue. … Asthma could be treated through the tongue in the lung |
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Taste Receptors On Lungs May Help Fight Asthma
Gant Daily In fact, the lung response was far greater than the effect given off by current asthma drugs. According to Dr. Liggett, “They all opened the airway more … Bitter may mean better in the lungs Lungs Sense Bitterness Using a Little Bit of Tongue Bitter tastes 'could ease asthma' |
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Telegraph.co.uk |
Lungs, Taste, and Asthma
Science Friday … the receptors could cause constricted airways to relax. The find, they say, could lead to improved treatments for asthma. We'll find out more. Good News Ahead For Asthma Sufferers Bitter Is Better for Those With Inhalers! Discovery of 'lung tastebuds' may lead to new asthma inhalers |
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