{"term":{"id":"11892","title":"muscarinic","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - muscarinic","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11892","code":"11892","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Referring to agents that stimulate the postganglionicparasympatheticreceptor, named after the prototypical mushroom alkaloid, muscarine [2,5-anhydro-1,4,6-trideoxy-6-(trimethylammonio)-D-ribo-hexitol].","notes":{"1":"The muscarinic receptor has a recognition site for acetylcholine.","2":"Muscarinic receptors are distinguished from nicotinic receptors, thus allowing classification of cholinergic receptors as muscarinic and nicotinic.","3":"Drugs that bind with muscarinic cholinergic receptors but do not activate them, thus preventing access to acetylcholine, include atropine and scopolamine."},"links":[{"term":"acetylcholine","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11557"},{"term":"cholinergic","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11674"},{"term":"ganglionic","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11779"},{"term":"nicotinic receptors","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11960"},{"term":"parasympathetic","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11993"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 884 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11892\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11892\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11892\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'muscarinic' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11892","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-15T05:41:33+00:00"}}