Abstract:A literature of 92 scientific papers addressing the effects of beta-adrenoceptor stimulation on the heart have been collected with the support of a computer-based MEDLINE system and critically examined. Neither in animal experiments nor in a wide clinical use of tocolytics for more than two decades has a risk for the hearts of fetus and neonate been confirmed, because there is no or only very little stimulating action on the beta-adrenoceptors of fetal and newborn's hearts as their sympathetic innervation is s… Show more
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