Gold salts asthma

Muranaka M, Miyamoto T, ShidaT, Kabe J, Makino S, Okumura H,Takeda K, Suzuki S, Horiuchi Y. Gold salt in the treatment of bronchial asthma - a double blind study. Ann Allergu 1978 40 132-137. 

Chrysotherapy has been used for arthritis and some related diseases, and reports exist of some value in asthma. SK F-39162 appears to be a specific inhibitor of anaphylactic histamine release in reaginlcally sensitized animals. Yet the compound has no direct antagonism to known mediators. It is not known whether this compound has the same liabilities of other gold salts in humans, such as kidney and skin lesions. 

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