Abstract

Nausea and vomiting are common adverse effects of therapeutic drugs. Such symptoms are more often due to CNS effects than to direct toxic effects on the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Drugs may cross the blood-brain barrier and activate the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the brainstem, which contains cells that are responsive to cholinergic, dopaminergic and serotonergic stimulation.

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