BP405T · Semester 4 · B.Pharm
Unit I — Drugs Acting on the Peripheral Nervous System
Systemic Pharmacology I
This study page introduces Drugs Acting on the Peripheral Nervous System in Systemic Pharmacology I (BP405T), B.Pharm Semester 4. Read the selected definitions and short notes below, then download the full unit PDF.
Topics in this unit
- Organization of the Peripheral Nervous System and Neurohumoral Transmission
- Autonomic Drugs — Parasympathomimetics, Parasympatholytics, Sympathomimetics, Sympatholytics
- Skeletal Muscle Relaxants, Myasthenia Gravis, and Glaucoma Drugs
Definitions and short notes
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Parasympathomimetic (cholinergic agonist)
A drug that copies or boosts the parasympathetic messenger acetylcholine — it "mimics" the rest-and-digest system. Also called a cholinomimetic.
Unit PDF · page 17
Direct-acting cholinergic
A drug that directly switches ON the cholinergic receptor, like the real key (e.g., bethanechol, pilocarpine).
Unit PDF · page 17
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