Innovations in airway innervation: treatments for chronic cough
Hot topicsChairs: T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland), D. Stolz (Basel, Switzerland)
Aims: To better understand 1) the innervation of the airways and how novel therapies may act on airway nerves; 2) the concept of cough reflex hypersensitivity and how that may manifest in clinical diseases, not only chronic cough patients but also in chronic respiratory diseases; 3) the mechanism of action, potential clinical effects and utility of a range of P2X3 antagonists in development; the mechanism of action, potential clinical effects and utility of other new anti-tussive therapies currently in development.