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ABSTRACT: Background
Cough features a complex peripheral and central neuronal network. The function of the chemosensitive and stretch (afferent) cough receptors is well described but partly understood. It is speculated that chronic cough reflects a neurogenic inflammation of the cough reflex, which becomes hypersensitive. This is mediated by neuromediators, cytokines, inflammatory cells, and a differential expression of neuronal (chemo/stretch) receptors, such as transient receptor potential (TRP) and purinergic P2X ion channels; yet the overall interaction of these mediators in neurogenic inflammation of cough pathways remains unclear.Objectives
The World Allergy Organization/Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (WAO/ARIA) Joint Committee on Chronic Cough reviewed the current literature on neuroanatomy and pathophysiology of chronic cough. The role of TRP ion channels in pathogenic mechanisms of the hypersensitive cough reflex was also examined.Outcomes
Chemoreceptors are better studied in cough neuronal pathways compared to stretch receptors, likely due to their anatomical overabundance in the respiratory tract, but also their distinctive functional properties. Central pathways are important in suppressive mechanisms and behavioral/affective aspects of chronic cough. Current evidence strongly suggests neurogenic inflammation induces a hypersensitive cough reflex marked by increased expression of neuromediators, mast cells, and eosinophils, among others. TRP ion channels, mainly TRP V1/A1, are important in the pathogenesis of chronic cough due to their role in mediating chemosensitivity to various endogenous and exogenous triggers, as well as a crosstalk between neurogenic and inflammatory pathways in cough-associated airways diseases.
SUBMITTER: Rouadi PW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8654622 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rouadi Philip W PW Idriss Samar A SA Bousquet Jean J Laidlaw Tanya M TM Azar Cecilio R CR Sulaiman Al-Ahmad Mona M Yáñez Anahí A Al-Nesf Maryam Ali Y MAY Nsouli Talal M TM Bahna Sami L SL Abou-Jaoude Eliane E Zaitoun Fares H FH Hadi Usamah M UM Hellings Peter W PW Scadding Glenis K GK Smith Peter K PK Morais-Almeida Mario M Gómez R Maximiliano RM González Díaz Sandra N SN Klimek Ludger L Juvelekian Georges S GS Riachy Moussa A MA Canonica Giorgio Walter GW Peden David D Wong Gary W K GWK Sublett James J Bernstein Jonathan A JA Wang Lianglu L Tanno Luciana Kase LK Chikhladze Manana M Levin Michael M Chang Yoon-Seok YS Martin Bryan L BL Caraballo Luis L Custovic Adnan A Ortega-Martell José Antonio JA Jensen-Jarolim Erika E Ebisawa Motohiro M Fiocchi Alessandro A Ansotegui Ignacio J IJ
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<h4>Background</h4>Cough features a complex peripheral and central neuronal network. The function of the chemosensitive and stretch (afferent) cough receptors is well described but partly understood. It is speculated that chronic cough reflects a neurogenic inflammation of the cough reflex, which becomes hypersensitive. This is mediated by neuromediators, cytokines, inflammatory cells, and a differential expression of neuronal (chemo/stretch) receptors, such as transient receptor potential (TRP) ...[more]