Optimal ratios of pharmaceutical compositions of beta-1 and beta-2 agonists with their respective antagonists.
Safer, more cost-effective drugs for heart and
lung therapies are made by combining specific antagonists with their agonists to prevent desensitization of cellular receptors, reducing some of the unwanted side-effects of the
agonist drugs alone. Determining the optimal concentration of an
antagonist or inhibitor, which is necessary to prevent desensitization, without causing unnecessary and unwanted inhibition, creates a new class of pharmaceuticals. To derive an optimum ratio for a specific composition, a formulative method is provided to detail how competitive antagonists of the
receptor should be combined with agonists, in specific proportions, to maximize and maintain
receptor response throughout
drug administration. The "optimal ratio" methodology used to determine a specific
agonist /
antagonist composition, to prevent beta-1 or beta-2
receptor desensitization, is experimentally verified and validated for specific compositions. Alteration of a specific ratio is practiced to account for the pharmacokinetic / dynamic differences between animals and humans and within human populations.