Non-specific bronchial hyperreactivity: correlation to asthma and modifying factors.
Bronchial hyperreactivity can be induced and modified by allergic and non-allergic factors affecting the airways. Bronchospasm can also be induced by small amounts of many of these agents and by other factors as well. Allergic and non-allergic subjects can be affected. Bronchial obstruction in asthma due to allergic reactions is to a large extent dependent on the degree of nonspecific bronchial reactivity. This can be influenced by different modes of treatment.
D000403:Airway Resistance; D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001980:Bronchi / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000503:physiopathology; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000503:physiopathology