What's the difference between antasthmatic and antiasthmatic?
Antasthmatic
Definition:
(a.) Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.
(n.) A remedy for asthma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boys were prescribed 65% more antasthmatics than girls.
(2) Antasthmatics comprised the largest subgroup (796 prescribed drugs).
Antiasthmatic
Definition:
(a. & n.) Same as Antasthmatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) To counteract this negative development it is very important firstly to establish and maintain a longterm therapeutic regime with antiasthmatic drugs, and secondly to propose an individual fitness program for such children.
(2) The introduced model seems to be sufficient for testing inhibitors of arachidonate metabolism for antiasthmatic activity.
(3) The leukotriene (LT) antagonist FPL 55712, dexamethasone, which inhibits phospholipase A2, and the antiasthmatic drug cromolyn all reduced the sustained phase significantly.
(4) Recently, we have shown that a membrane-permeant derivative of the antiasthmatic drug cromoglycate (CG) effectively inhibits the Fc epsilon-receptor-mediated secretory response of rat mucosal mast cells (line RBL-2H3) at a stage preceding the transient rise in the cytoplasmic free calcium concentration [Hemmerich, S., Sijpkins, D., & Pecht, I.
(5) Only 52% received a combined antiasthmatic treatment including corticosteroids and both slow release theophylline and beta-agonists.
(6) Mast cells recovered by BAL and enzymic dissociation were differentially inhibited by antiasthmatic drugs.
(7) In general assays pertaining to drug level monitoring (DLM) of antiasthmatic agents (except theophylline), published during the period 1978-1983, used mostly high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) methodology (approximately 45%) with mass spectrometric (MS) based assays in second place (approximately 30%) followed by immunochemical techniques (approximately 25%).
(8) Bronchial challenge for determination of bronchial reactivity is widely used in the diagnosis of asthma, the grading of severity, and evaluation of effect of treatment with new antiasthmatic drugs.
(9) The hypokalaemia-inducing effects of two widely used inhaled antiasthmatic beta 2-adrenoceptor agonists, fenoterol and salbutamol, were compared in six healthy male volunteers.
(10) The in vitro studies using the tracheal ring, taenia coli, rat peritoneal mastocytes and enzymic preparations demonstrated the potency of S 9795 as an antiasthmatic drug, possessing protective activity superior to that of theophylline and enprofylline.
(11) Thirty four of 106 (32%) children with previous wheezing had not been diagnosed as asthmatic, nor received effective antiasthmatic medication.
(12) For example, adrenergic cardiac stimulants are antiasthmatics.
(13) We conclude that AA-2414 might exert its antiplatelet and antiasthmatic effects through antagonism of the TXA2 receptor.
(14) The xanthine adenosine antagonists have mild psychostimulant, analgesic adjuvant, diuretic, cardiotonic and antiasthmatic activity.
(15) The release evoked by the nucleotide was unaffected by antiasthmatic chromones but was inhibited by structurally related flavonoids and by cAMP-active drugs.
(16) In a group of atopic adult asthmatic patients the effects of two new inhaled antiasthmatic drugs, nedocromil sodium and minocromil were studied in two independent randomized double-blind trials to assess their efficacy in preventing exercise-induced asthma (EIA).
(17) Four nationwide population surveys show that the prevalence of self-reported asthma has risen, a larger proportion of asthmatic patients are under medication, the number of antiasthmatics per patient has increased, and the dosage recommendations of inhalation glucocorticoids and beta-agonists have grown.
(18) Inasmuch as tartrazine so frequently aggravates the aspirin sensitive asthmatic, it would be wise for pharmaceutical companies to become cognizant of this fact and delete tartrazine from their antiasthmatic preparations.
(19) These results suggest that the antiasthmatic effect of OKY-046 is probably due to inhibition of TxA2 synthesis and suppression of histamine release via a PGI2 shunting mechanism.
(20) Moreover, actions of the antiasthmatic drugs were studied ex vivo on lung beta-adrenoceptors in rats and guinea pigs.