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Sympatholytics  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Agents, Sympathetic-Blocking
  • Agents, Sympatholytic
  • Agent, Sympatholytic
  • Drugs, Sympatholytic
  • Drug, Sympatholytic
  • Sympathetic Blocking Agents
  • Sympathetic-Blocking Agents
  • Sympatholytic
  • Sympatholytic Agent
  • Sympatholytic Agents
  • Sympatholytic Drug
  • Sympatholytic Drugs

Note

  • note entry term SYMPATHOLYTIC EFFECT: use only for the sympatholytic effect of a chemical substance

Scope note

  • 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 deplete norepinephrine or reduce the release of transmitters from adrenergic postganglionic terminals (see ADRENERGIC AGENTS). Drugs that act in the central nervous system to reduce sympathetic activity (e.g., centrally acting alpha-2 adrenergic agonists, see ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS) are included here.

History note

  • ADRENERGIC FALSE TRANSMITTERS was heading 1973-81

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013565

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