Adrenergic Antagonists
Adverse Effects
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100

What do adrenergic antagonists do?

Block the activity of the sympathetic nervous system

(so they are also called adrenergic blocking agents)

100

Diarrhea (1 type)

Cholinergic drugs

100

Fight or flight is the __________nervous system.

Symphathetic

100

Rest and digest is the ____________nervous system.

Parasymphathetic

100

Aminopentamide

Anticholinergic Muscarinic blocker

200

What is an adverse effect of an alpha blocker?

Tachycardia

Muscle tremors

Seizures

200

Bradycardia (2 types)

Cholinergic

Adrenergic beta blockers 

200
Which cranial nerves affect the sympathetic nervous system?

None

200

The SA node of the heart is affected by ____________receptors of the __________nervous system.

Muscarinic

Parasympathetic

200

Yohimbine

Adrenergic alpha blocker

300

What is the reversal agent for medetomidine?

Atipamezole

300

Nervousness or anxiety (2 types)

Adrenergic drugs

Antichlinergic drugs


300

The _____________nervous system causes pupils to dilate.

Symphathetic

300

Which section of the autonomic nervous system have longer preganglionic axons?

Parasymphathetic

300

Neostigmine

Cholinergic anticholinesterase

400

Which type of drug is used for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

Beta blockers

400

Burning at injection site (1 type)

Anticholinergics

400

Which cranial nerve controls the viscera (name and number)?

10- Vagus

400

What is one tissue affected by the parasymphatic system only?

Parotid salivary

Lacrimal

Nasopharyngeal



400

Timolol

Adrenergic Beta Blocker

500

Which drug is used to treat cardiac arrhythmnias and HCM?

Propranolol

Atenolol

500

Syncope

Adrenergic beta blockers

500

Increased scretions from the respiratory tract mucous glands occurs due to activation of which receptor?

M1

500

Dilatation of skeletal, coronary, and cerebral blood vessels results from activation of which receptor?

M2

500

Dobutamine

Adrenergic sympathomimetic

Beta-1 agonist