Pharma quiz 2.5

True or false?

A receptor produces a variety of physiologic responses, depending on where in the body the receptor is located.
True False

_______ receptors are located in the bladder, heart, blood vessels, stomach, bronchi, and eyes.

Drugs that affect various sites are ______ drugs

specific/nonspecific

Drugs that affect various receptors are 

selective/nonselective

What are the four categories of drug action?

Four categories of drug action:

The rate of cell activity or the secretion from a gland increases  depression- cell activity and function of a specific organ are reduced.

Four categories of drug action:

This happens when the body cannot produce it but it is must be provided.

Four categories of drug action:

Drugs that inhibit or kill organisms interfere with bacterial cell growth.

Four categories of Drug action:

Drugs also can act by the mechanism of irritation (e.g., laxatives irritate the inner wall of the colon, thus increasing peristalsis and defecation)