Lecture 5 - The Sympathetic Nervous System

Question 1

What neurotransmitters are used in the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 1

Noradrenaline and ACh

Question 2

What muscles does the sympathetic nervous system control?

Answer 2

Radical muscle/dilator papillae

Question 3

What is glucoma and what drugs can treat it?

Answer 3

Glucoma is a condition which causes aqueous humour to build up within the eye instead of draining via the canal of Schelmm. Sympathetimimetic drugs can be used for anti-glucoma treamtment.

Question 4

What region is responsible for the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 4

Thoracic and lumbar

Question 5

What type of receptor is used within the sympathetic pathways?

Answer 5

Adrenoreceptors, nicotinic and muscarinic