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Pharmaceutical Preparations > Plant Extracts > Curare
Complex Mixtures > Biological Products > Plant Preparations > Plant Extracts > Curare

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Curare  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • /analogs: consider also CURARE-LIKE AGENTS see NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS

Scope note

  • Plant extracts from several species, including genera STRYCHNOS and Chondodendron, which contain TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINES that produce PARALYSIS of skeletal muscle. These extracts are toxic and must be used with the administration of artificial respiration.

History note

  • CURARIFORM ANTAGONISTS was heading 1963-69

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003472

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