Heartbeat
| 23 October, 2009 | Richard P. Grant |
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We had a long discussion this morning about beta blockers. Beta blockers are drugs used to treat various heart-related conditions but particular arrhythmias (when your heart, instead of boom boom, goes boomdiddyboomdebopbipbop or something equally alarming), high blood pressure and angina. They work by inhibiting different classes of so-called adrenergic receptors: the trans-membrane collections of…
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