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1
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What action would increase the levels of acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft?

A

Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase

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What are the effects of Ephedrine?

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Mild CNS stimulation (cross BBB), increase BP, and treats HTN

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When xerostomia is cause by hypoactivity of the parasympathetic nervous system, which cholinergic drug could be used to increase the volume of salivary secretion?

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Pilocarpine

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4
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Which type of drug would increase secretion of digestive enzymes, HCl and saliva

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M3 Agonist

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Which type of cholinergic receptor acts on the heart by decreasing HR and results in bradycardia

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M2 Receptors

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What are the general cholinergic side effects caused by general cholinergic stimulation

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sweating, salivation, flushing, decrease in BP with reflexive tachycardia, nausea, abdominal pain/diarrhea, and bronchospasm

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Which of the following conducting passages are most affected by the action of ipratropium?

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Large-diameter central bronchiols

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You need to intubate a patient in shock but you don’t want the pre-intubation drug to cross the BBB and effect the small respiratory first, which drug do you choose

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Recuronium/Vecuronium

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9
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What drug is used in rapid intubations

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Succinylcholine

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10
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Alpha 1 receptors generally produce which outcome to vasculature

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Vasoconstriction, increase blood flow, and increase BP

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11
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What are the effects of alpha 2 receptors being agonized

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Inhibit NE release
Inhibit Ach release
Inhibit insulin release

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12
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What are the effects of Beta 1 receptor agonists

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Increase in HR
Increase in lipolysis
Increase myocardial contractility
Increase renin

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What are the effects of Beta 2 receptor agonists

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Vasodilation
Decrease periferal resistance
Bronchodilation
Increase glycogenolysis
Relax uterine smooth muscles

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14
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What do D1 receptors act upon

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Smooth muscle, dilates renal blood vessels

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15
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What do D2 receptors act upon

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Nerve endings, modulates transmitter release

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16
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What do you give people who are dry as fuck (Sjogrens)

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Pilocarpine

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17
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What is pilocarpine used in an emergency for

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Reduce opthalmatic pressure in glaucoma (fast acting)

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18
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What receptors does Acetylcholine act

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M3, M, and N

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19
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What selective adrenergic antagonist used for pregnancy induced HTN and brings about hypertension without less significant tachycardia

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Lebetalol (acts on alpha 1, beta 1, beta 2)

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20
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What are the simplified muscarinic agonist side effects

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Diarrhea, diaphoresis, miosis, nausea, urinary urgency

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21
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In addition to supportive therapy, a victim of antimuscarinic poisoning would be given drugs to abolish delirium and coma. Which of the following is the best choice for such treatment?

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Physostigmine

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22
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Tracheobronchial gland hypersecretion can be suppressed by
Atropine
Succinylcholine
Recuronium
Histamine

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Atropine

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23
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Which of the following drugs used in glaucoma therapy has a prolonged longest duration of action and can be administered relatively infrequently?
Timolol
Albuterol
Echothiophate
Epinephrine

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Echothiophate

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24
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What is the only clinical use of Echothiophate?

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Treatment of occular hypertension in chronic glaucoma

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25
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Release of vesicular norepinephrine requires an increase in the concentration of which of the following cations near the inner surface of the presynaptic membrane?

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Calcium

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26
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A drug that is an agonist both of β1- and β2-adrenoceptors can be expected to cause

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A decrease in total peripheral vascular resistance

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27
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What is the mechanism and medical effects of Phenylephrine

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Is a direct adrenergic agonist acting on alpha 1 receptors that results in increased BP and reflexive bradycardia

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28
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What are the adverse effects of albuterol?

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Tremor and tachycardia

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29
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Medication used in treatment of nonobstructive urinary retention and neurogenic atony of the urinary bladder?

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Bethanecol

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30
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What is the MOA of Physotigmine?

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binds with acetylcholinesterase, making it reversibly inactivated.

Stimulates M, N in the CNS and N in NMJ

31
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What is the clinical indication of oxybutinin/solifecin/tolteradine

A

overactive bladder and incontinence

32
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What is the MOA of oxybutinin/solifecin/tolteradine

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Is an antimuscarinic cholinergic antagonist that competatively binds to M3 receptors that results in decreased bladder pressure and capacity

33
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Which type of drugs can increase both sympathetic and parasympathetic symptoms through the same mechanism?

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Nn agonists

34
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Beta 1 receptors generally function to

A

Increase cardiac function

35
Q

What is the clinical indication of Esmolol

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Used only for supra-ventricular tachycardia (SVT)

36
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What are the adverse effects of selective adrenergic antagonists

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Bradycardia, reduced cardiac output, AV heart block

Safe to use in COPD/asthma because there is no blockage of B2

37
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In general what receptors do non-selective adrenergic antagonists act on

A

B1 and B2

38
Q

What is the MOA of amphetamines

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release dopamine + NE (catecholamines) and has powerful CNS effect alpha 1, alpha 2, and beta 1

39
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What is dopamine useful for treating

A

treating both cardiac and septic shock

40
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What is the mechanism of action of cocaine

A

propagation of action on norepinephrine by inhibiting its active transport from the synapse

41
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What do all preganglionic neurons release

A

Acetylcholine

42
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What do acebutolol and metoprolol have in common

A

both are selective B-blockers and may be used in hypertensive patients with impaired pulmonary function

43
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The effects of bethanecol can be reversed by

A

Atropine

44
Q

What is the mechanism of action of botulinum toxin?

A

Inhibition of the release of acetylcholine

45
Q

Which of the following is a competitive muscarinic antagonist used to treat some symptoms of organophosphate poisoning?
Neostigmine
Atropine
Carbachol

A

Atropine

46
Q

What drug is used to conduct cardiac stress tests?

A

Dobutamine

47
Q

What receptors mimic the parasympathetic nervous system?

A

Muscarinic

48
Q

Sympathetic preganglionic neurons are located in

A

The thoracic and lumbar segments of the spinal cord

49
Q

Parasympathetic preganglionic neurons are located in and send signals through

A

the CNS through the cranial nerves (especially the third, seventh, ninth, and tenth).

50
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What are the primary acetylcholine subtypes

A

Muscarinic and Nicotinic receptors

51
Q

How do direct-acting cholinomimetic act

A

Bind to and activate muscarinic or nicotinic receptors

52
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How do indirect-acting agents produce their primary effects

A

by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase, which hydrolyzes acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid

53
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The nerve fibers that innervate the adrenal medulla are best described as

A

Cholinergic sympathetic

54
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The nerve fibers that innervate skeletal muscle are best described as

A

Somatic Cholinergic

55
Q

Sympathetic postganglionic fibers release

A

Acetylcholine

56
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What is the mechanism of action of an indirect-acting agonist like amphetamine

A

Interferes with the enzymatic breakdown of a neurotransmitter

57
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What are the Alpha Antagonist Drugs

A

Phenoxybenzamine
Prazosin/Terazosin
Tamsulosin

58
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What are the nonselective beta antagonists (B1 and B2 antagonists)

A

Propranolol
Nadolol
Pindolol (partial B1 agonistic activity)
Timolol

59
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What are the B1 Selective Antagonists

A

Metoprolol
Acebutolol (partial B1 agonistic activity)
Esmolol
Atenolol
Nebivolol (vasodilation effect)

60
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What are the A1, B1, and B2 selective antagonists (has vasodilation effect)

A

Carvedilol
Labetalol

61
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What are the direct adrenergic agonists

A

Epinephrine
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Dobutamine
Isoproterenol
Phenylephrine
Albuterol

62
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What are the indirect adrenergic agonists

A

Cocaine
Amphetamine

63
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What are the direct and indirect agonists

A

Ephedrine
Pseudophedrine

64
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What are the direct cholinergic agonists

A

Acetylcholine
Bethanecol
Pilocarpine

65
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What are the Indirect cholinergic agonists

A

Edrophonium
Pyridostigmine/neostigmine
Physostigmine

66
Q

What are the Direct and Indirect cholinergic agonists

A

Echothiophate

67
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What are the antimuscarinic cholinergic antagonists

A

Atropine
Scopolamine
Ipratropium/Tiotropium
Oxybutinin/Solifecin/Tolteradine

68
Q

What are the neuromuscular cholinergic antagonists

A

Recuronium/Vecuronium
Succylcholine

69
Q

Selective adrenergic antagonists that can be given to lower blood pressure in HTN and increase exercise tolerance

A

Metropolol
Nebivolol
Atenolol

70
Q

What drug is useful in diagnosing mysthenia gravis

A

Edrophonium

71
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What are the clinical indications for Propranolol

A

Diminishes cardiac output and depresses SA/AV node
HTN and angina management
Performance anxiety

72
Q

Ganglionic antagonists

A

nicotine is rarely used, often used in research

73
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A drug that is a selective alpha 1 agonist that causes exaggerated orthostatic response and syncope​ with the first dose

A

Prazosin

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