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β-Blockers have differential effects on the murine asthma phenotype.
British journal of pharmacology - 1 Oct 2015
Thanawala V J, Valdez D J, Joshi R, Forkuo G S, Parra S, Knoll B J, Bouvier M, Leff P, Bond R A
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our previous studies have shown the β2 -adrenoceptor and its endogenous ligand, adrenaline, are required for development of the asthma phenotype in murine asthma models. Chronic administration of some, but not other, β-blockers attenuated the asthma phenotype and led us to hypothesize that biased signalling was the basis of their differential effects, experimentally and clinically....
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