please help me fill in the blanks for 39-42 Willie Mae Kitt has a pretty bad cas

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please help me fill in the blanks for 39-42

Willie Mae Kitt has a pretty bad case of diarrhea. Willie's girfriend Izzy Dunyet is getting a little tired of the situation. It seems like every time they go out, she spends most of her time waiting for Willie to find a restroom. Willie finally goes to the doctor and he gets a prescription for something called dicyclomine. Dicyclomine is an anticholinergic drug (a type of Acetylcholine receptor antagonist) that can affect all of the parasympathetic nervous system organs, but can affect ONLY generalized sweat glands in the sympathetic nervous system. You would expect dicyclomine to _____ activation of _____ Willie's doctor is also thinking about giving Willie some Norepinephrine. He knows that this will _____ stimulation of _____ and stomach motility will _____. Adrenergic receptors Nicotinic receptors Muscarinic receptors Increase Decrease

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Dicyclomine is an antichollinergic, i.e an antispasmodi agent. It functions by blocking the action of acetycholine at parasympathetic sites in smooth muscles along with CNS and secretory glands. As it antagonizes the muscarinic receptor.So,

39.decrease

40.muscarinic receptors

Increasesd sertonin inhibits norepinephrine release in the case of diarrhea. Now, norepinephrine is an alpha-2- adrenergic receptor agonist which controls diarrhea.

41.increase

42.adrenergic receptors

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