Cholinergic Pharmacology I Flashcards
Symptoms of intoxication of muscarine mimic what branch of the ANS?
PNS
What was the first identified agonist of muscarinic receptors?
Muscarine (compound found in certain mushrooms)
SLUD refers to the rapid classic spectrum of generalized muscarinic receptor activation. What does SLUD stand for?
Salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation
What is the effect of a muscarine receptor agonist on the skin?
Vasodilation
Why does ACh have virtually no therapeutic applications?
It’s actions are diffuse, rapid hydrolysis via AChe and BChe
What muscarinic agonist can be taken orally for post operative abdominal distinction and has the effects of increasing the contractile force of smooth muscle throughout the gastrointestinal tract?
Bethanecol
What are 3 examples of muscarinic agonists?
Bethanecol, methacholine, pilocarpine
What muscarinic agonist taken orally is used in gastric atony and increases the force of gastric contractions?
Bethanechol
What muscarinic agonist taken subcutaneously is used for non obstructive urinary retention and increases smooth muscle contractions of the bladder body?
Bethanechol
What muscarinic agonist is used in the diagnoses of asthma by causing Bronchoconstriction and broncho secretion that could trigger an asthmatic event in a patient with asthma also has slight susceptibility to ChE?
Methacholine
What muscarinic agonist can be taken orally for xerostomia (dry eye/mouth) and facilitates lacrimal and salivary secretions?
Pilocarpine
What muscarinic agonist instilled into the eye is used to treat glaucoma by increased drainage of aqueous humor and relieves intraocular pressure
Pilocarpine
Glaucoma is characterized by too much pressure buildup in what part of the eye causing the lens to be pushed back into the retina?
Anterior chamber
Where does the aqueous humor drain?
Canal of schlemm
What are the two mechanisms behind glaucoma?
Too much production
Not enough drainage
What is characterized by an increase in intraocular pressure, leads to damage of ocular disk and irreversible blindness, leading cause of blindness in African Americans and third leading cause in Caucasians?
Glaucoma
What are the two types of glaucoma?
Narrow angle (acute congestive) Wide angle (chronic simple)
What type of glaucoma requires drug treatment for management of an acute attack?
Narrow angle (acute congestive)
What type of glaucoma has a gradual insidious onset and requires chronic drug therapy?
Wide angle (chronic simple)