Autonomic Nervous System Drugs

Question 1

What is the main control center of the body’s functions?

Answer 1

Nervous System

Question 2

What are the main divisions of the Nervous System?

Answer 2

Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System

Question 3

It is a division of the Peripheral Nervous System that controls and regulates the involuntary functions of the body.

Answer 3

Autonomic Nervous System

Question 4

It is a division of the Peripheral Nervous System that controls and regulates the voluntary functions of the body.

Answer 4

Somatic Nervous System

Question 5

It is a kind of neuron that sends impulses to the Central Nervous System.

Answer 5

Afferent Neurons

Question 6

It is a kind of neuron that receives impulses and transmits them through the spinal cord to the effector organ cells.

Answer 6

Efferent Neurons

Question 7

What are the five steps of Synaptic Transmission?

Answer 7

Synthesis of Neurotransmitters
Storage of Neurotransmitters
Release of Neurotransmitters
Action of the receptor
Termination of Transmission

Question 8

What kind of response does the Sympathetic Nervous System elicit?

Answer 8

Fight or Flight response

Question 9

It is the theory that drugs act through receptors by binding to the receptors to initiate a response or prevent a response.

Answer 9

Receptor Theory

Question 10

These drugs stimulate the Sympathetic Nervous System by mimicking the effects of Norepinephrine.

Answer 10

Sympathomimetics

Question 11

These are drugs that stimulate the Parasympathetic Nervous System.

Answer 11

Parasympathomimetics

Question 12

What receptors are in the Sympathetic Nervous System?

Answer 12

Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Beta 1 and Beta 2

Question 13

These are Sympathomimetics that go straight to receptor sites.

Answer 13

Direct-acting Sympathomimetics

Question 14

What treatment is under the therapeutic uses of the Alpha 2 receptor?

Answer 14

Hypertension

Question 15

What are the receptors that Epinephrine can bind onto?

Answer 15

Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Beta 1, Beta 2

Question 16

Albuterol is an example of a drug with a Beta 2 receptor. (True or False)

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Tissue Necrosis is not a side effect of Adrenergic Agonists. (True or False)

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Adrenergic blockers directly blocks the Alpha and Beta receptors by occupying them. (True or False)

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Beta Blockers decrease Heart Rate. (True or False)

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Nicotine is a Ganglionic Blocker. (True or False)

Answer 20

True