Fever: friend or foe?

Fever is one of the most common manifestations of disease. The patients' relatives and physicians' concern about it is due to the fact that fever reflects that something in the body is not working well. However, the question on fever as convenient or harmful is not yet completely answered. The porpose of this paper is to examine the arguments on both sides and to guide on the convenience of antipyretic treatment

Efeitos do propranolol e da fenoxibenzimina sobre a resposta febril induzida pelo lipopolissacarídeo de E. coli, em coelhos / Effects of propranolol and phenoxibenzamine on the febrile response induced in rabbits by lipopolysaccharide from E. coli

Drogas bloqueadoras de receptores Alfa e Beta adrenérgicos, como a fenoxibenzamina e o propranolol, produziram reduçäo estatisticamente significante da resposta febril induzida pelo lipopolissacarídeo de E. coli (LPS) em coelhos. Os presentes resultados sugerem que receptores Alfa e Beta adrenérgicos poderäo estar envolvidos nessa resposta febril