Effects of Khat (Catha Edulis) on Bronchial Asthma

Introduction: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. It is always being a health burden across the globe. The active chemical present in Khat could have a bronchodilator effect like that of catecholamine.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2018-05-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.17352/OJA.000008
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Asthma costs and social impact

  2017cited by this paper
• The physiological basis and clinical significance of lung volume measurements

  2017cited by this paper
• Asthma is Different in Women

  2015cited by this paper
• Severe asthma: from characteristics to phenotypes to endotypes

  2012cited by this paper
• Asthma in the elderly: Current understanding and future research needs—a report of a National Institute on Aging (NIA) workshop

  2011cited by this paper
• It's all about sex: male-female differences in lung development and disease

  2008cited by this paper
• Scourge of Life or an Economic Lifeline? Public Discourses on Khat (Catha edulis) in Ethiopia

  2008cited by this paper
• Bronchial asthma: diagnosis and long-term treatment in adults.

  2008cited by this paper
• Modulation of cholinergic contractions of airway smooth muscle by cathinone: potential beneficial effects in airway diseases

  2008cited by this paper
• Achieving asthma control in practice: understanding the reasons for poor control.

  2008cited by this paper
• Gender differences in asthma development and progression.

  2007cited by this paper
• Asthma in Africa

  2007cited by this paper
• Effect of aging on respiratory system physiology and immunology

  2006cited by this paper
• Khat (Catha edulis)—an updated review

  2005cited by this paper
• Severe asthma in adults.

  2005cited by this paper
• Risk factors for near-fatal asthma.

  2004cited by this paper
• Pharmacokinetics of cathinone, cathine and norephedrine after the chewing of khat leaves.

  2003cited by this paper
• The Actions of Dopamine on the Airways

  2003cited by this paper
• Mechanisms of severe asthma

  2003cited by this paper
• Sex differences in thoracic dimensions and configuration.

  2003cited by this paper

• Antiasthmatic Medicinal Plants of Tanzania: An Ethnomedicinal and Ethnopharmacological Review

  2024cites this paper
• Cathine and cathinone disposition kinetics and neurotransmitter profile in several organs of rats exposed to a single dose of Catha edulis (Vahl) Forssk. ex Endl. extract

  2023cites this paper
• Khat-drug interactions: A systematic review

  2021influential citation
• The impact of catha edulis (vahl) forssk. ex endl. (celestraceae) (khat) on pharmacokinetics of clinically used drugs

  2021cites this paper
• Prevalence of Asthma and Its Association with Daily Habits in Jimma Town, Ethiopia

  2018influential citation
• Prevalence of Asthma and Its Association with Daily Habits in Jimma Town, Ethiopia

  2018cites this paper