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. 1973 Jan;47(1):181–182. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1973.tb08173.x

The effect of age on β-adrenoceptor activity in tracheal smooth muscle

G Åberg, G Adler, E Ericsson
PMCID: PMC1776508  PMID: 4717018

Abstract

There was an age-related reduction of the sensitivity of rat and guinea-pig isolated tracheal smooth muscles to stimulation of β-adrenoceptors, but the ability of tracheal smooth muscle to relax to isoprenaline was not completely lost.

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