... asthma therapy to come in the guise of a drug long-considered hazardous in asthmatic patients due to the risk of profound acute bronchoconstriction [ 3 ]; nevertheless, β-blockers have been the subject of recent interest and study in this regard. Murine asthma models demonstrated improvements in airway...

..., resulting in increased exacerbations and rare cases of death. The hypothesis examined in the present article is that, while single dosing with a β -blocker may cause acute bronchoconstriction, chronic dosing may afford putative beneficial effects including attenuated airway hyper-responsiveness...

... 2006 5 10 2006 5 10 2006 The Biochemical Society 2007 angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor apoptosis β-blocker congestive heart failure Fas left ventricular function Experimental and clinical data have indicated that abnormal inflammatory and apoptotic...

.... Correspondence: Professor Christopher J. Mathias, at the Neurovascular Medicine Unit, Imperial College London at St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, U.K. (email c.mathias@imperial.ac.uk ). 4 7 2006 18 7 2006 18 7 2006 The Biochemical Society 2006 adrenaline β-blocker...

... hypotension increases adrenaline levels and adrenaline can produce skeletal muscle vasodilatation by activating β 2 receptors, adrenaline might induce a positive feedback loop precipitating circulatory collapse. We hypothesized that propranolol, a non-selective β-blocker, would prevent adrenaline-induced...

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