BACKGROUND The contributions of as-needed inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta2 agonists (LABA) to asthma control have not been fully established. We compared the efficacy and safety of three reliever strategies: a traditional short-acting beta2 agonist; a rapid-onset LABA (formoterol); and a combination of LABA and an inhaled corticosteroid (budesonide-formoterol) in symptomatic patien...

The effectiveness of beta2-agonists in preterm delivery is reduced by several factors. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of late pregnancy in the uterus-relaxing effect of terbutaline in the rat in vitro. Rat uterine tissues from late pregnancy (days 15, 18, 20 and 22) were used. In vitro electrical field-stimulation (EFS) was used to evoke contractions. The radioligand-bindi...

The aim of the present study was to design an asymmetric membrane capsule, an osmotic pump-based drug delivery system of ethyl cellulose for controlled release of terbutaline sulphate. asymmetric membrane capsules contains pore-forming water soluble additive, sorbitol in different concentrations in the capsule shell membrane, which after coming in contact with water, dissolves, resulting in an ...

      Mucoadhesive polymers that bind to the gastric mucin or epithelial cell surface are useful in drug delivery for the purpose of increasing the intimacy and duration of contact of drug with the absorbing membrane. Several synthetic polymers are in use for this purpose. Since the biodegradability of the synthetic polymers are questionable, in this investigation, an oral mucoadhesive controll...

We have compared bronchodilator responses to atropine and terbutaline in 39 chronic bronchitics and 16 stable asthmatics. Fasting subjects were given either 1.05 mg atropine of 5.0 mg terbutaline orally. Pulmonary function was assessed using the peak responses, namely: three 60-minute intervals for terbutaline and three 30-minute intervals for atropine. A subgroup of five reactive bronchitis pa...

BACKGROUND Reversibility after administration of an inhaled bronchodilator is not always demonstrable in patients with asthma. Bronchodilator aerosol-induced bronchoconstriction has also been reported to occur in some patients. METHODS Fifteen selected patients showing < 10% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) when tested with four doses of salbutamol (0.1 mg/dose) or...

This study was performed to determine the degree to which beta2-adrenergic receptor agonists can reverse the allergen-induced late reduction in lung function. On two occasions, seven asthmatic subjects were administered terbutaline or its vehicle by intravenous infusion 7 h after inhaled allergen, at which point the forced expiratory volume in 1 s was 57% of baseline. On another occasion, terbu...

The contributions of amiloride-sensitive and -insensitive fractions of alveolar fluid clearance in adult ventilated rats were studied under control conditions and after beta-adrenergic stimulation. Rats were instilled with a 5% albumin solution containing terbutaline (10(-4) M) or dibutyryl-cGMP (DBcGMP; 10(-4) M) with or without the cyclic nucleotide-gated cation channel inhibitor l-cis-diltia...

Peebles, R. Stokes, Jr., Solbert Permutt, and Alkis Togias. Rapid reversibility of the allergen-induced pulmonary late-phase reaction by an intravenous b2-agonist. J. Appl. Physiol. 84(5): 1500–1505, 1998.—This study was performed to determine the degree to which b2-adrenergic receptor agonists can reverse the allergen-induced late reduction in lung function. On two occasions, seven asthmatic s...

β-Adrenoceptors (βARs) control cell replication/differentiation, and during development, signaling is not subject to desensitization. We examined the effects of terbutaline, a β2AR agonist used as a tocolytic, on development in rat brain regions and peripheral tissues with high βAR concentrations. Prenatal terbutaline (gestational days 17–20) decreased cell numbers (DNA content) in the fetal br...