RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Adrenergic beta-receptor sensitivity in essential tremor.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 1216
OP 1218
DO 10.1136/jnnp.47.11.1216
VO 47
IS 11
A1 Teräväinen, H
A1 Larsen, T A
YR 1984
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/47/11/1216.abstract
AB Adrenergic beta-receptor sensitivity of six male patients with essential tremor and six 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. It is concluded that no major abnormality is likely to exist in the peripheral adrenergic beta-receptor sensitivity in essential tremor.