Epinephrine: A Lifesaving Role In Crisis Response

Epinephrine

Structural Diagram- page 72

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About:

- Epinephrine has several uses, including increasing ventilation of lungs through relief of bronchodilation, increasing cardiac output, increasing systolic blood pressure, dilating blood vessels involved in crisis response

- Clinically, epinephrine plays a lifesaving role in countering the effects of anaphylactic shock. It relaxes smooth muscle, though at different receptors.

Physical Properties:

- high boiling points and melting points compared to hydrocarbons of similar size

-water soluble as it is small in size

- the above characteristics can be explained by two types of polar bonds in all amines , the N—C bons and any N—H bonds. Due to these bonds, the intermolecular