KROK 1 Stomatology 2014 – Question 58 · KROK (Dentistry)
A patient in a collaptoid state has been given an injection of mesatonum for the correction of blood pressure. What is the mechanism of this drug action?
- A. It stimulates α-adrenergic receptors
- B. It blocks β-adrenergic receptors
- C. It stimulates α- and β-adrenergic receptors
- D. It stimulates β-adrenergic receptors
- E. It blocks α-adrenergic receptors
Hint
Recall the other name of mesatonum and which receptor in the arterioles it acts on to raise peripheral resistance.
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