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I am two branches that make up the Autonomic Nervous System.
What is the Parasympathetic Branch and Sympathetic Branch?
I send messages from the brain and spinal cord out to neuroeffector sites (i.e. heart, GI tract).
What are Efferent Neurons?
I am two major control systems in the body.
What is the Nervous and Endocrine System?
I am another term for myoneural junction.
What is the Neuromuscular Junction?
I send incoming messages from the periphery to the brain or spinal cord.
What is an Afferent Neuron?
When my drug is used, I stimulate a receptor for norepinephrine or epinephrine.
What is Adrenergic?
I control the unconscious, involuntary control mechanism of the body.
i.e. Increasing Heart Rate
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
When my drug is used, I cause stimulation of a receptor for Acetylcholine.
What is Cholinergic?
Under voluntary, conscious control- I stimulate skeletal muscles to move the body.
i.e. Walking
What are the Somatic Neurons or Somatic Portion of the Nervous System?
When my drug is used, I block a receptor for Acetylcholine.
What is Anticholinergic?
I am an agent that blocks the effect of the parasympathetic system.
I am an agent causing stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
What is a Sympathomimetic agent?
When my drug is used, I block receptors for norepinephrine and epinephrine.
What is Antiadrenergic?
I am an agent causing stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is a Parasympathomimetic agent?
I'm an agent that blocks the effects of the sympathetic nervous system.
What is a Sympatholytic agent?
Stimulation of my receptor increases the rate and force of cardiac contraction.
What is Beta-1?
This branch controls day-to-day functions.
i.e. Digestion, bladder and rectal discharge, and basal secretions of bronchial mucus.
What is the Parasympathetic Branch?
I am a term used to characterize my branch that reacts as a general alarm system.
What is "Fight or Flight"
Stimulation of this branch, my blood sugar increases as well as blood flow shifts from the periphery to my muscles and the heart.
What is the Sympathetic Branch?
I am a direct-acting cholinergic agent used in the diagnosis of asthma.
What is Methacholine?
I am a cholinergic receptor on airway smooth muscle that causes bronchoconstriction.
What is M3?
I am two mechanisms that can inactivate Acetylcholine.
What is the Cholinesterase Enzyme and the Reuptake Process?
I am the acronym that characterizes overstimulation of the parasympathetic branch.
What is S.L.U.D. syndrome?
Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, and Defecation.
I am the two branches that form the basis for two classes of respiratory care drugs that modify airway smooth muscle tone.
What is the adrenergic bronchodilator group and the anticholinergic bronchodilator group?
I exert my effect by mediating the release of circulating catecholamines epinephrine and norepinephrine.
What is an Indirect Effect of the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Direct Sympathetic Effect innervates the tissue sites by nerve fibers.