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Adrenergic Agents

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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.  note entry term ADRENERGIC EFFECT: use only for the adrenergic effect of a chemical substance   
See Also Sympatholytics; Sympathomimetics
Examples Adrenergic Agonists; Adrenergic Antagonists; Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors 		Other names Transmitter Releasers, Sympathetic; Synthesis Inhibitors, Adrenergic; Releasers, Sympathetic Transmitter; Release Inhibitors, Adrenergic; Neuron Drugs, Adrenergic; Neuron Agents, Adrenergic; Neurohumor Depleters, Adrenergic; Inhibitors, Adrenergic Synthesis; Inhibitors, Adrenergic Release; Effects, Adrenergic; Effect, Adrenergic; Drugs, Adrenergic Neuron; Drugs, Adrenergic; Depleters, Adrenergic Neurohumor; Agents, Adrenergic Neuron; Agents, Adrenergic; Adrenergics; Adrenergic Neuron Drugs; Adrenergic Neurohumor Depleters; Adrenergic Effects
Substances having this pharmacologic action: Oxidopamine; Amphetamine; Prenylamine; Methamphetamine; Guanethidine; Benzphetamine; Bethanidine; Ephedrine; Debrisoquin; Phentermine; DSP 4; tetrahydropalmatine

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