Cholinergic

See Cholinergic Neurons

Relating to or denoting nerve cells in which acetylcholine acts as a neurotransmitter. It requires choline for productions of acetylcholine.

Cholinergic means your parasympathetic nervous system is active and you are producing saliva and digestive enzymes and you are urinating and defecating. Using a cholenergic agent increases function in the digestive tract, urinary tract, increased saliva production.

Gastric Acid: Gastric acid secretion is largely control by cholinergic, histaminergic and peptidinergic (especially gastrin) pathways. Disorders in a number of these pathways can lead to gastric acid hypersecretion. including ones, which primarily mediate the hypersecretion by causing hypergastrinemia, causing hyperhistaminemia or by an unknown etiology. While these disorders may have different etiologies, they frequently share similar clinical features [i.e., peptic ulcer disease (PUD), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)] due to the effects of the acid hypersecretion on the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum.

The Cholinergic Anti-inflammatory Pathway: A Missing Link in Neuroimmunomodulation