Sites of Drug Action

<p>Botulinum toxin (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nicotine (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Curare (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Idazoxan (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cocaine (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physostigmine (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Curare (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the effects of drugs on the nervous system and behavior (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exogenous chemicals that significantly alter the functions of certain cells of the body (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fate of a drug as it is absorbed into the body, circulates throughout the body, and reaches its sites of action (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intracerebrally (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lipid-soluble drugs (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some are deactivated by enzymes and others are excreted (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug's effectiveness (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Plants and animals that produce chemicals that act on the nervous system (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The effects of drugs on the nervous system and behavior (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chemicals that are not necessary for normal cellular functioning (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agonists (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They initiate the release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agonists facilitate the effects of a neurotransmitter, while antagonists inhibit the effects (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between doses that produce desirable effects and toxic side effects (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They reuptake neurotransmitters from the synaptic cleft (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agonists and antagonists (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pharmacokinetics of the drugs (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They regulate the synthesis and release of neurotransmitters (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They destroy neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He had trouble with his vision (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He rinsed it under water and threw it away (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was seeing double (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A chemical that has a therapeutic effect on a disease or its symptoms (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Produced from outside the body (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neurotransmitters (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large quantities of any substance can alter the functions of cells (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indirect antagonist (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decrease the release of neurotransmitter (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inhibit the release of the neurotransmitter (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Decrease neural firing (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct antagonist (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reuptake (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activation of dendritic autoreceptors (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indirect antagonist (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They regulate the synthesis and release of neurotransmitters (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To investigate the operations of the nervous system (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between doses that produce desirable effects and those that produce toxic side effects (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lipid-soluble drugs (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drugs that deactivate the proteins that cause docked synaptic vesicles to fuse with the presynaptic membrane (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ion channels controlled by the receptors open and produce postsynaptic potentials (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They prevent the neurotransmitter from opening the ion channel (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They pump molecules of the neurotransmitter across the membrane, filling the vesicles (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He had difficulty swallowing and his voice became weak. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He rinsed his mouth and tongue with water. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It blocks the receptor and prevents the neurotransmitter from binding. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stimulating autoreceptors (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Antagonists (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To block postsynaptic receptors (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inhibition of synthesis/release of neurotransmitters (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Exogenous drugs (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Antagonists (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agonists (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Precursor effect (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It occurs when a molecule binds with an alternative site and does not compete with molecules of the neurotransmitter (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It facilitates the release of the neurotransmitter (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They regulate the amount of neurotransmitter released (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They decrease neural firing by producing hyperpolarizations (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An exogenous chemical not necessary for normal cellular functioning that significantly alters the functions of certain cells of the body when taken in relatively low doses (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neurotransmitters (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To take molecules of the neurotransmitter back into the terminal button (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agonists bind with a receptor and activate it, mimicking the effects of the natural ligand. Antagonists bind with a receptor but do not activate it, preventing the natural ligand from binding with the receptor. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that inactivates the enzyme that normally destroys acetylcholine (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that prevents the storage of neurotransmitter in synaptic vesicles (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that stimulates the release of neurotransmitter (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drug that blocks the reuptake of neurotransmitters (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers