Anticholinergic drugs block the action of a chemical messenger called acetylcholine. It plays a key role in involuntary movements needed for muscle and brain function. It transfers signals between ...

Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic ... modification of inflammatory mechanisms and varying efficacy in specific ...

Many drugs commonly prescribed to the elderly have anticholinergic properties. Due to the current clinical use of drugs with mild-to-modest anticholinergic activity, the clinical manifestations of ...

Scopolamine, a belladonna alkaloid, is an anticholinergic. Scopolamine acts: i) as a competitive inhibitor at postganglionic muscarinic receptor sites of the parasympathetic nervous system ...