Autonomic Drugs Flashcards
Mydriasis can be caused by contraction of the radial fibers of the iris, these smooth muscle cells have _______ receptors
Alpha receptors
- Phenylephrine (selective adrenoceptors)
Minoxidil is a powerful arteriolar vasodilator that does not act on autonomic receptors. What are the following effects?
Tachycardia and increased cardiac contractility
- Because of the compensatory responses, a drug that directly decreases blood pressure through a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance will cause a reflex increase in sympathetic outflow
- Heart rate and cardiac force will increase
Full activation of the parasympathetic nerves is likely to produce ____________
- pupillary constrictor muscle (Miosis)
- bronchial and intestinal muscle contration
- bradycardia
Norepinephrine acts at presynaptic _________adrenoreceptors and postsynaptic ___________ adrenporecptors
Alpha 2
Alpha 1
ganglion blockade results in ______ blood pressure, bowel activity and sweating
Decreased
- Because the parasympathetic system dominates the pupil and SA node, it will cause mydriasis and tachycardia
The nerves innervating the pupillary constrictor muscle are __________________ cholinergic nerve
postganglionic parasympathetic
Pupillary muscle dilator contains__________
Alpha 1 adrenoceptors
Botulinum toxin impairs all types of ____________ transmission
Cholinergic
- including transmission at ganglionic synapses and somatic motor nerve endings
- prevents discharge of vesicular transmitter content from cholinergic nerve endings
- cyclop;egia
primary neurotransmitter agent normally released in the sinoatrial node of the heart in response to a blood pressure_________-
Acetylcholine
The _________ transports norepinephrine back into the nerve ending after release and is blocked by cocaine
Reuptake carrier
- Amphetamine is a substrate of NET but does not block it
______ and ______ block transporters in cholinergic nerves
Hemicholinium abd vesamicol
sympathomimetic drug that facilitates the release of catecholamines from adrenergic nerve endings
Amphetamine
Bacterial toxin that enzymatically disables release of acetylcholine from cholinergic nerve endings
Botulinum toxin
Important central nervous system transmitter with some peripheral effects (renal vasodilation, cardiac stimulation)
Dopamine
Research drug the inhibits transport choline into cholinergic nerve endings
Hemicholiniums
research drug that blocks all ANS ganglia and prevents autonomic compensatory reflexes
Hexamethonium
Inhibitor of tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate limiting enzyme in NE synthesis
Metyrosine
Primary transmitter at most sympathetic postganglionic nerve endings; important CNS transmitter
Norepinephrine
Drugs that inhibits VMAT, transported odf dopamine and norepinephrine into transmitter vesicles of adrenergic nerves
Reserpine
Toxins that block sodium channel and therby limit transmission in all nerve fibers
tetrodoxin, saxitoxin
Drug that inhibits VAT, transported of acetylcholine into its transmitter vescles
Vesamicol
Neostigmine and bethanechol in moderate dosage have different effects on the ____________
Vascular endothelium
- Neostigmine
- acts on the enzyme cholinesterase which is present at all cholinergic synapses
- increases acetylcholine effects at nicotinic junctions
- Bethanechol
- direct acting agent that activates muscarinic receptors regardless of wheter the receptors are innervated or not
- The muscarinic receptors on vascular endothelial cells are not innervated and responds only to direct-acting drugs
Parathion
- activated by conversion to -oxon derivatives
- lessstable than halogenated hydrocarbon insecticides of the DDT
- less permanent in the environment
- More toxic than malathion
- very lipid soluble
- rapidly absorbed through the lungs and skin