Adrenergic Agents
| Medical Definition: |
Drugs that act on adrenergic receptors or affect the life cycle of adrenergic transmitters. Included here are adrenergic agonists and antagonists and agents that affect the synthesis, storage, uptake, metabolism, or release of adrenergic transmitters. |
| Guide Notes: |
DF: ADREN AGENTS |
| Also Called: |
Adrenergic Neurohumor Depleters,Adrenergic Neuron Agents,Adrenergic Release Inhibitors,Adrenergic Synthesis Inhibitors,Sympathetic Transmitter Releasers |
| Previously Indexed: |
Sympathomimetics (1977-1994) |
Adrenergic Agents Categories.
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Adrenergic Agonists - Drugs that bind to and activate adrenergic receptors. |
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Adrenergic Antagonists - Drugs that bind to but do not activate ADRENERGIC RECEPTORS. Adrenergic antagonists block the actions of the endogenous adrenergic transmitters EPINEPHRINE and NOREPINEPHRINE. |
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Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors - Drugs that block the transport of adrenergic transmitters into axon terminals or into storage vesicles within terminals. The tricyclic antidepressants (ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC) and amphetamines are among the therapeutically important drugs that may act via inhibition of adrenergic transport. Many of these drugs also block transport of serotonin. |
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