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The new study unveiled an elegant intracellular signalling system in which beta-receptor activation modulates alpha-adrenergic signaling.
Glucocorticoids enhance beta-receptor stimulation by increasing the number and availability of beta receptors on the cell surfaces and by increasing affinity of the receptor for beta agonists.
One theory for the nature of asthma postulated that the disease represented a "blockage" of the beta-receptor that was either inherited or established through acquired illness.
 
 
 
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