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Heterocyclic Compounds > Alkaloids > Muscarine
Organic Chemicals > Amines > Quaternary Ammonium Compounds > Trimethyl Ammonium Compounds > Muscarine
... > Inorganic Chemicals > Nitrogen Compounds > Ammonium Compounds > Quaternary Ammonium Compounds > Trimethyl Ammonium Compounds > Muscarine
Organic Chemicals > Onium Compounds > Quaternary Ammonium Compounds > Trimethyl Ammonium Compounds > Muscarine

Preferred term

Muscarine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • /biosyn if permitted by plant; do not confuse with the dye muscarine

Scope note

  • A toxic alkaloid found in Amanita muscaria (fly fungus) and other fungi of the Inocybe species. It is the first parasympathomimetic substance ever studied and causes profound parasympathetic activation that may end in convulsions and death. The specific antidote is atropine.

History note

  • 77; was see under PARASYMPATHOMIMETICS 1963-68

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009116

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