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Neuromuscular Depolarizing Agents  

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Entry terms

  • Blockers, Depolarizing
  • Depolarizing Blockers
  • Depolarizing Muscle Relaxants
  • Muscle Relaxants, Depolarizing
  • Relaxants, Depolarizing Muscle

Scope note

  • Drugs that interrupt transmission at the skeletal neuromuscular junction by causing sustained depolarization of the motor end plate. These agents are primarily used as adjuvants in surgical anesthesia to cause skeletal muscle relaxation.

History note

  • 70; LEPTOCURARES was see NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS 1970-92; MUSCLE RELAXANTS was see under CURARE-LIKE AGENTS & MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL & NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS 1970-74, was heading 1963-69

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009467

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