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What is part of the autonomic nervous system? - ANSWER
✔✔sympathetic and parasympathetic system
For the sympathetic nervous system, what kind of drugs are used? -
ANSWER ✔✔adrenergic agents
What do adrenergic agents do? - ANSWER ✔✔add energy, mimic
sympathetic system, effect fight or flight
,Where do adrenergic agents affect Beta 1 receptors? - ANSWER
✔✔heart
How do adrenergic agents affect Beta 1 receptors? - ANSWER
✔✔increase heart rate and force of contraction
Adrenergic agents work on Beta 2 receptors where? - ANSWER
✔✔lungs
Adrenergic agents affecting Beta 2 does not do what? - ANSWER
✔✔increase respiratory rate
How do adrenergic agents affect Beta 2 receptors? - ANSWER
✔✔work on smooth muscle in bronchial passages
Why do adrenergic agents affecting Beta 2 work on smooth muscle in
bronchial passages? - ANSWER ✔✔to dilate them or relax them so
you can breathe more air in
Where do adrenergic agents affect alpha receptors? - ANSWER
✔✔peripheral vascular and pupils
What do adrenergic agents affecting alpha receptors do about the
peripheral vascular? - ANSWER ✔✔constrict arteries (make smaller)
,so all blood goes away from the gut and skin to go to heart, lungs, and
muscles so you can run
What do adrenergic agents affecting alpha receptors do about pupils? -
ANSWER ✔✔dilate them so lots of light can come in so we can see
better
Basically, Adrenergic agents create what kind of response in the body? -
ANSWER ✔✔fight or flight
What is the poster child for adrenergic drugs? - ANSWER
✔✔epinephrine (also called adrenaline)
Epinephrine is naturally made where but can also be injected more? -
ANSWER ✔✔in the body
What is an example of an adrenergic drug? - ANSWER ✔✔Epipens
Why are epipens given? - ANSWER ✔✔so bronchial passages can
open so person can breathe
What are the target organs of adrenergic drugs? - ANSWER
✔✔cardiac, respiratory, peripheral, ocular
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, Adrenergic drugs targeting heart can cause what? - ANSWER
✔✔tachycardia
Adrenergic drugs targeting respiratory organs can cause what? -
ANSWER ✔✔bronchial dilation
Adrenergic drugs targeting peripheral can cause what? - ANSWER
✔✔vasoconstriction
Adrenergic drugs targeting eyes can do what? - ANSWER
✔✔dilatation of the pupil
What are some adverse drug reactions (side effects) of adrenergic
drugs? - ANSWER ✔✔nervousness, insomnia, fine muscle tremors,
palpitations, tachycardia, hypetension
There is no such thing as what? - ANSWER ✔✔an antiadrenergic
drug
For the parasympathetic nervous system, what drugs are used? -
ANSWER ✔✔cholinergic agents
When thinking of cholinergic drugs, think of colon/energy which means...
- ANSWER ✔✔rest and digest