Synaptic pharmacology

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In pharmacology, synaptic pharmacology is the study of drugs that act on the synapses. It deals with the composition, uses, and effects of drugs that may enhance (receptor) or diminish (blocker) activity at the synapse, which is the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.

A partial list of pharmacological agents that act at synapses follows.

Synaptic pharmacology Channel, Receptor, or Phenomenon Antagonist or Blocker adenosine DCPGX, ZM241385, anoxinine AMPA-R NBQX AMPA-R desensitization cyclothiazide (CTZ) cannabinoid AM-251 GABAA bicuculline, gabazine GABAB CGP-54626 glycine strychnine kainate R .. metabotropic GluR, broad MCPG, pertussis toxin, NEM muscarinic AChR atropine, Scopolamine nicotinic AChR bungarotoxin, curare, DhBe NMDA-R APV See also Neuropharmacology - The Molecular and Behavior study of Disease and Drugs in the Nervous System Neuropsychopharmacology - The detailed comprehensive study of mind, brain and drugs. References