Everyone Healthy medication library
Beta agonist Drug Class
Medicines in this drug class are grouped together in the Everyone Healthy medication database. This page is educational only and should not be used as personal prescribing advice.
Drug class overview
Beta agonist overview
Beta-adrenergic agonist
Beta-adrenergic agonists are adrenergic agonists which act upon the beta receptors.[1]
β1 agonists
Main article: Beta-1 adrenergic receptor#agonists
β1 agonists: stimulates adenylyl cyclase activity; opening of calcium channel. (cardiac stimulants; used to treat cardiogenic shock, acute heart failure, bradyarrhythmias). Selected examples are:
- Dobutamine
- Isoproterenol (β1 and β2)
- Xamoterol
- epinephrine
β2 agonists
Main article: Beta2-adrenergic agonist
β2 agonists: stimulates adenylyl cyclase activity; closing of calcium channel (smooth muscle relaxants; used to treat asthma and COPD). Selected examples are:
- salbutamol (albuterol in USA)
- Fenoterol
- Formoterol
- Isoproterenol (β1 and β2)
- Metaproterenol
- Salmeterol
- Terbutaline
- Clenbuterol
- isoethrine
- pirbuterol
- procaterol
- ritodrine
- epinephrine
Undetermined/unsorted
The following agents are also listed as agonists by MeSH.[2]
- arbutamine
- befunolol
- bromoacetylalprenololmenthane
- broxaterol
- cimaterol
- cirazoline
- denopamine
- dopexamine
- etilefrine
- hexoprenaline
- higenamine
- isoxsuprine
- mabuterol
- methoxyphenamine
- nylidrin
- oxyfedrine
- prenalterol
- ractopamine
- reproterol
- rimiterol
- tretoquinol
- tulobuterol
- zilpaterol
- zinterol
References
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