Trial reportBrain, behavior, and immunity2018
The effect of beta-adrenergic blockade on inflammatory and cardiovascular responses to acute mental stress.
Trial report in Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06263452 (Beta-Blocker Influences on Inflammatory and Neural Responses to Stress), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Beta-Blocker Influences on Inflammatory and Neural Responses to Stress
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Beta-adrenergic blockade blunts inflammatory and antiviral/antibody gene expression responses to acute psychosocial stress.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- β-Adrenergic Signaling Contributes to Circadian and Lipid Dysregulation in Meibomian Glands During Chronic Psychological Stress.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Article
- Neuro-Immune Crosstalk: Molecular Mechanisms, Biological Functions, Diseases, and Therapeutic Targets.MedComm · 2026Review
- Exploring factors associated with inflammation in stressed workers: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Interventions by Cardiovascular Drugs Against Aircraft Noise-Induced Cardiovascular Oxidative Stress and Damage.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A dyadic stress induction tool for experimental investigation of adult patients with cancer and their family caregivers.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Heart-Brain Axis: A Narrative Review of the Interaction between Depression and Arrhythmia.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- β-Adrenoceptor Blockade Moderates Neuroinflammation in Male and Female EAE Rats and Abrogates Sexual Dimorphisms in the Major Neuroinflammatory Pathways by Being More Efficient in Males.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2023Article
- A Pilot Study of Neurobiological Mechanisms of Stress and Cardiovascular Risk.Medical research archives · 2023Article
- Stress circuitry: mechanisms behind nervous and immune system communication that influence behavior.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Anger recall mental stress decreasesJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022Article
- Brainstem dysfunction in critically ill patients.Critical care (London, England) · 2020Review
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Abstract
Acute mental stress elicits increases in plasma cytokine concentrations in humans, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. We assessed the impact of beta-adrenergic blockade on plasma interleukin 6 (IL-6) and IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra) responses in a parallel group, double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial involving 64 healthy young adult volunteers. Participants were administered 80 mg slow-release propranolol or placebo daily for 7 days before the stress testing session in which responses to 3 behavioural challenges (public speaking, mirror tracing, mental arithmetic) were evaluated. Propranolol administration was associated with reduced baseline levels of heart rate and IL-1Ra, and systolic blood pressure (BP) in men. Tasks stimulated increased plasma IL-6 concentrations sampled 45 min and 75 min after challenge, but these responses were blocked by propranolol in men (p < 0.001). Propranolol did not influence IL-6 responses in women, or IL-1Ra in either sex. Blood pressure and heart rate increased markedly during the tasks, but there was no differential stress reactivity in propranolol and placebo conditions. The results of the study support a role of sympathetic nervous system activation in stimulating acute IL-6 responses to stress, but only in men. The reasons for the differences between men and women remain to be resolved.
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