Encyclopedia: Anticholinergics
An anticholinergic agent is a substance which blocks the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the central and the peripheral nervous system. An example of an anticholinergic is dicyclomine. Generally speaking, it reduces the effects mediated by acetylcholine on acetylcholine receptors in neurons through competitive inhibition. The effect is therefore reversible. Anticholinergics are classified according to the receptors that are affected: , Antimuscarinic agents operate on the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. The majority of...
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Generally speaking, do sympathomimetics and anticholinergics have the same effect?
i.e. a drug that speeds up the heart is a sympathomimetic but one that prevents...
i.e. a drug that speeds up the heart is a sympathomimetic but one that prevents...
ANS is very complicated, why don't you read goodman goldman's or gillman.....whatever it is book on Pharmacology? or just check it out in some biology website
Asked by leabee - 3 months ago
What happens when anticholinergics (procyclidine) are taken through the nasal passages into the bloodstream?
I was wondering if any mental health or medical professionals could tell me more about...
I was wondering if any mental health or medical professionals could tell me more about...
OK. I am going to try and keep this short as I can. Drug users use this drug, but because it does not cause much of a eurphoria they...
Asked by Ben M - 15 months ago