Preferential antagonism by diltiazem of ?2-adrenoceptor mediated vasoconstrictor responses in perfused tail arteries of spontaneous hypertensive rats

A functional basis for classification of α-adrenergic receptors

Spencer Berthelsen, William A. Pettinger · Life Sciences · 1977 · 802 citations

Medicine, Pharmacology, Physiology +10

EVIDENCE FOR TWO DISTINCT TYPES OF POSTSYNAPTIC α‐ADRENOCEPTOR IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE <i>in vivo</i>

G.M. Drew, SUSAN B. WHITING · British Journal of Pharmacology · 1979 · 434 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology +13

Studies on RX 781094: a selective, potent and specific antagonist of α₂‐adrenoceptors

John C. Doxey, Alan G. Roach, C. F. C. SMITH · British Journal of Pharmacology · 1983 · 355 citations · Full text

Medicine, Pharmacology, Experimental Pharmacology +14

Uneven distribution of postjunctional alpha 1-and alpha 2-like adrenoceptors in canine arterial and venous smooth muscle.

Jo G. R. De Mey, P. M. Vanhoutte · Circulation Research · 1981 · 227 citations · Full text

Medicine, Pharmacology, Comparative Pharmacology +12

Vascular smooth muscle contraction initiated by postsynaptic α2-adrenoceptor activation is induced by an influx of extracellular calcium

J. C. A. van Meel, A. de Jonge, Hans O. Kalkman et al. · European Journal of Pharmacology · 1981 · 159 citations

Life Sciences, Physiology, Calcium Homeostasis +10