Adrenergic beta-receptor sensitivity in essential tremor.
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 47 (11), 1216-1218
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.47.11.1216
Abstract
Adrenergic .beta.-receptor sensitivity of 6 male patients with essential tremor and 6 age-matched normal controls was assessed by measuring the response in the heart rate and postural tremor to incremental injections of the adrenergic .beta.-agonist isoprenaline. The relative increase in heart rate and tremor in essential tremor patients did not differ from that in normal controls. No major abnormality is likely to exist in the peripheral adrenergic .beta.-receptor sensitivity in essential tremor.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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