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adrenergic receptor
a site on an effector organ innervated by postganglionic adrenergic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system, classified as either α-adrenergic or β-adrenergic according to its reaction to norepinephrine and epinephrine, as well as to certain blocking and stimulating agents. Called also adrenoceptor and adrenoreceptor.

Adrenergic receptor; simplified schematic view of adrenergic nerve ending and the effector cell with its receptors. When norepinephrine is released, it enters the synaptic cleft to bind to α1- and β-adrenergic receptors on the effector cell; there is also a short feedback loop in which norepinephrine binds to α2- and β-adrenergic receptors on the neuron to inhibit or stimulate further release, respectively.


Medical dictionary. 2011.