Our recent study demonstrates the existence of previously unrecognized central nervous β-adrenoceptor (β-AR) mechanisms ... β-blockers may also act directly in the brain and that this action ...

β-blockers exert an antihypertensive effect via several mechanisms of action: central inhibition of sympathetic nervous system outflow, inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system by decreasing ...

Beta-blockers antagonize beta-1 and ... Stabilizing membranes decreases the propagation of action potentials. This is also the mechanism that local anesthetics work (lidocaine).

Beta blockers affect both of these mechanisms, according to the expert. In fact, a 2012 study published in the journal Sleep ...

Taking prescribed beta blockers during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may increase mortality risk due to suppression of signals from nerves that promote bone marrow regeneration, according to ...

Timolol maleate is a beta 1 and ... it has the action of reducing elevated, as well as normal intraocular pressure, whether or not accompanied by glaucoma. The precise mechanism of the ocular ...

Among the most prescribed drugs for this purpose are beta blockers ... are different types of anticoagulants based on their mechanism of action: Vitamin K antagonists: Block vitamin K-dependent ...

Calcium channel blocker (CCB) (dihydropyridine). Nifedipine inhibits the transmembrane influx of calcium ions into vascular smooth muscle and cardiac muscle. The reduction in calcium influx causes ...

The following is a summary of “Cost-effectiveness of digoxin versus beta blockers in permanent atrial fibrillation: the Rate Control Therapy Evaluation in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation (RATE-AF) ...