Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Neurotransmitter Agents > Cholinergic Agents
Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action > Neurotransmitter Agents > Cholinergic Agents

Preferred term

Cholinergic Agents  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Acetylcholine Agent
  • Acetylcholine Agents
  • Agent, Acetylcholine
  • Agent, Cholinergic
  • Agents, Acetylcholine
  • Cholinergic
  • Cholinergic Agent
  • Cholinergic Drug
  • Cholinergic Drugs
  • Cholinergics
  • Drug, Cholinergic
  • Drugs, Cholinergic

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; note entry term CHOLINERGIC EFFECT: use only for the cholinergic effect of a chemical substance

Scope note

  • 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 that affect the survival of cholinergic neurons. The term cholinergic agents is sometimes still used in the narrower sense of MUSCARINIC AGONISTS, although most modern texts discourage that usage.

History note

  • 95; was see PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS 1975-94; NICOTINIC AGENTS was see GANGLIONIC STIMULANTS 1978-94; CHOLINOMIMETICS was see PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS 1974-94; MUSCARINIC AGENTS was see PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS 1969-94

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018678

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/29/94, last modified 5/27/20