Possible Interaction: Glucose and Histamine H2 Antagonists

“Norepinephrine has a powerful influence on astrocytic metabolism and glycogen turnover that can stimulate carbohydrate utilization more than oxygen consumption, whereas β‐receptor blockade ‘re‐balances’ the stoichiometry of oxygen‐glucose or ‐carbohydrate metabolism by suppressing glucose and glycogen utilization more than oxygen consumption.”

“Confirmation for this comes from subjects with dietary ketosis in whom liver glycolysis is in abeyance, when β-receptor blockade abolishes the rise of glucose as well as of lactate.”