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Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action > Enzyme Inhibitors > Cholinesterase Inhibitors
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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action > Neurotransmitter Agents > Cholinergic Agents > Cholinesterase Inhibitors

Preferred term

Cholinesterase Inhibitors  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Agent, Anticholinesterase
  • Agents, Anticholinesterase
  • Anti Cholinesterase
  • Anti-Cholinesterase
  • Anticholinesterase
  • Anticholinesterase Agent
  • Anticholinesterase Agents
  • Anticholinesterase Drug
  • Anticholinesterase Drugs
  • Anti Cholinesterases
  • Anti-Cholinesterases
  • Anticholinesterases
  • Cholinesterase Inhibitor
  • Drug, Anticholinesterase
  • Drugs, Anticholinesterase
  • Inhibitor, Cholinesterase

Scope note

  • Drugs that inhibit cholinesterases. The neurotransmitter ACETYLCHOLINE is rapidly hydrolyzed, and thereby inactivated, by cholinesterases. When cholinesterases are inhibited, the action of endogenously released acetylcholine at cholinergic synapses is potentiated. Cholinesterase inhibitors are widely used clinically for their potentiation of cholinergic inputs to the gastrointestinal tract and urinary bladder, the eye, and skeletal muscles; they are also used for their effects on the heart and the central nervous system.

History note

  • 65; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS, IRREVERSIBLE & CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS, REVERSIBLE were see under CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS 1975-83, were Prov 1971-74; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS, ORGANIC was see PHOSPHORUS POISONS, ORGANIC 1963-64 (PHOSPHORUS POISONS, ORGANIC deleted 1965)

In other languages

  • koliiniesteraasin estäjät

    Finnish

  • antikoliiniesteraasi
  • antikoliiniesteraasit
  • koliiniesteraasi-inhibiittori
  • koliiniesteraasi-inhibiittorit
  • koliiniesteraasin estäjä
  • Kolinesterashämmare

    Swedish

  • Acetylkolinesterashämmare
  • Acetylkolinesterasinhibitorer
  • Antikolinesterasmedel
  • Kolinesterasinhibitorer

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002800

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