Article date: March 1978
By: NC Thomson, KR Patel, in Volume 5, Issue 5, pages 421-424
1 Specific conductance was measured before and after infused and/or inhaled dopamine in nine normal subjects and twelve patients with extrinsic bronchial asthma. 2 There was no significant change in conductance in either group. 3 The alpha‐adrenergic receptor antagonist thymoxamine infused in combination with dopamine had no significant effect on conductance in three asthmatics. 4 It is concluded that dopamine has no acute effect on airways resistance and that specific dopamine receptors are unlikely to exist in human airways.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1978.tb01648.x
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