Propranolol and Schizophrenia

Comparison of propranolol and propranolol

The technique of non-invasive blood pressure monitoring was used to compare the 24-hr control of blood pressure in 10 patients with essential hypertension taking either twice daily propranolol or a once daily long-acting formulation of propranolol (propranolol LA). Both drug regimes produced smooth control of blood pressure and heart rate through the 24 hours and significantly reduced blood pre...

One more look at propranolol for the treatment of refractory schizophrenia.

Propranolol, a beta-adrenergic blocking agent, has been proposed previously as potentially useful in the treatment of certain otherwise treatment-unresponsive psychotic patients. This article reviews the published clinical trials of the efficacy of propranolol in schizophrenia to characterize those patients in whom it might be helpful and for whom future clinical trials should be designed. Desp...

Using Atenolol and Propranolol

The respective contributions of 3-adrenoceptor subtypes to the hemodynamic, humoral and metabolic consequences of adrenergic stimulation during graded exercise in man were investigated using nonselective 8-adrenoceptor blockade with propranolol and ,81-adrenoceptor blockade with atenolol. Doses of these agents that produced comparable suppression of 1,1 response as measured by antagonism of car...

Propranolol hydrochloride

Effects of Verapamil and Propranolol

The ,3-adrenergic and calcium channel blocking agents are known to reduce heart rate and alter myocardial contractility. More recent evidence suggests that both agents affect the metabolic consequences of ischemia, independent of their effects on heart rate and contractility. We used a low-flow model of ischemia in swine with heart rate held constant by atrial pacing. Blood was shunted from the...