This can relax muscles in the urinary tract, making it easier to urinate. Flomax is considered a selective alpha-blocker, which means it targets the urinary tract specifically and has less effect ...

Alpha blockers are substances that antagonize alpha ... Tamsulosin and alfuzosin are less selective towards arterial alpha receptors and thus have less of a first dose-hypotension effect.

These types of alpha-blockers are called selective alpha-1 blockers. They treat BPH by causing the prostate’s smooth muscle to relax, allowing urine to flow freely through the urethra.

May 19, 2011 (Washington, DC) — Treatment with the highly selective alpha blocker silodosin seems to improve symptoms of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), according to ...

Alpha receptors are present in the human ureter, and selective alpha blockers such as tamsulosin have been shown to inhibit basal tone and decrease the frequency and amplitude of peristalsis in ...

Carvedilol and labetalol are non-selective beta-blockers that also block alpha-1 receptors. Propranolol and metoprolol are lipid soluble beta-blockers and can be used to treat anxiety, migraine ...

Most effects were considered mild and unrelated to treatment, however. Use of selective alpha-blockers for medical expulsive therapy is cost-effective compared with some other therapies for ...

We conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study evaluating the effect of eplerenone, a selective aldosterone blocker ... four interim analyses; an alpha level of 0.0001 was the threshold ...