Drugs

Question 1

Acetylcholine

Answer 1

Directly acting Cholinomimetic

Stimulates muscarinic and nicotinic receptors

Question 2

Bethanechol

Answer 2

Assists bladder emptying and enhance gastric motility

Directly acting Cholinomimetic

M3 AChR selective agonist

Question 3

Pilocarpine

Answer 3

local treatment for glaucoma

Directly acting Cholinomimetic

Non-selective muscarinic agonist

Question 4

What is another name for the drug class anticholinesterases?

Answer 4

Indirectly acting Cholinomimetics

Question 5

Physostigmine and Neostigmine

Answer 5

Glaucoma (eye drops)
To treat atropine poisoning
Reversal of non-depolarising neuromuscular block
To treat myaesthenia gravis

Indirectly acting Cholinomimetics (Anticholinesterases)

Reversible AChE inhibitor

Question 6

Ecothiopate (Organophosphate compounds)

Answer 6

Glaucoma

Indirectly acting Cholinomimetics (Anticholinesterases)

Irreversible AChE inhibitor.