Drugs acting on the cholinergic system can improve or worsen cognitive abilities, and their effects are particularly pronounced in frail elderly individuals and patients with Alzheimer disease.
Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic drugs in chronic asthma management has been largely underestimated.
Consequently, combination therapy currently involves the administration of one cholinergic drug (donepezil, galantamine or rivastigmine) and one glutamatergic drug (memantine). There have been no ...
This article examines the existing scientific applicability of the original cholinergic hypothesis of Alzheimer’s disease by describing ... at postmortem and neurosurgical cerebral biopsy and the ...
For around 70 years, the treatment of schizophrenia has relied almost entirely on drugs that block dopamine receptors, so Cobenfy's action on cholinergic receptors offers a brand new way to treat ...
The company told CBS it will charge around $80 for a 30-day supply of Vuity, a once-daily eyedrop formulation of muscarinic cholinergic ... the condition. The drug may find a market among people ...
“All the early work came from here: the cholinergic drugs [the medicines Donepezil, Rivastigmine and Galantamine], used by the NHS to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease came out of work ...