Terms Related to Parasympatholytic Agents

• Antimuscarinic Agents

  Drugs that bind to but do not activate muscarinic cholinergic receptors (RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC), thereby blocking the actions of endogenous acetycholine or exogenous agonists. Muscarinic antagonists ...

• Muscarinic Agents

  Any drug used for its actions on cholinergic systems. Included here are agonists and antagonists, drugs that affect the life cycle of ACETYLCHOLINE, and drugs ...

• Sympatholytic Agents

  Drugs that inhibit the actions of the sympathetic nervous system by any mechanism. The most common of these are the ADRENERGIC ANTAGONISTS and drugs that ...

• Nicotinic Agents

  Any drug used for its actions on cholinergic systems. Included here are agonists and antagonists, drugs that affect the life cycle of ACETYLCHOLINE, and drugs ...