Autonomic Nervous System drugs Flashcards
These are drugs that imitate or mimic neurotransmitter acetylcholine.
CHOLINERGIC AGONISTS
Adrenergic drugs contain catechol rings and an example of these is adrenaline or epinephrine.
CATECHOLAMINES
One of the main divisions of the autonomic nervous system wherein norepinephrine is the terminal neurotransmitter.
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
It is a drug that blocks cellular activity for a response.
ANTAGONIST DRUGS
It is a ganglionic blocker that causes addiction, stimulates and blocks cholinergic function, and increases the production of neurotransmitters.
NICOTINE
Type of neurons that is the sender of impulses to the Central Nervous System.
AFFERENT NEURONS
In the Sympathetic Nervous System, pupils usually do what?
DILATES
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) drugs stimulate the Sympathetic Nervous System and are sympathomimetic.
ADRENERGIC AGONIST
It is another type of receptor that helps treat heart failure, cardiac arrest, and shock.
BETA 1 RECEPTORS
A compound that functions as a neurotransmitter and is made from choline and acetyl CoA.
ACETYLCHOLINE
An Autonomous Nervous System type of drug that is parasympatholytic and inhibits the parasympathetic nervous system.
CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONIST
This blocker includes Atenolol, propranolol, pindolol, timolol, and metoprolol and is useful in treating mild to moderate hypertension.
BETA BLOCKERS
It is a system that is voluntary and supplies or innervates the skeletal muscles.
SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
Drugs that enhance cellular activities.
AGONIST DRUGS
Included in the parasympathetic nervous system that disables acetylcholine before reaching organ cells.
ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE
Another division of the autonomic nervous system wherein nicotinic and muscarinic is its receptor organ cells.
PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
These are receptors that are concerned with the regulation of the blood and usually treat hypertension.
ALPHA 2 RECEPTORS
It is a theory related to the phrase “The “key” fits the lock” or it is synonymous with the fit of the right key in a lock.
RECEPTOR THEORY
Adrenergic drugs that do not contain catechol in their nucleus.
NONCATECHOLAMINES
It causes relaxation of smooth muscles and reduces the contraction of smooth muscles in the bladder and prostate.
ALPHA-BLOCKERS
