Curare [kurare]

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Definition

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.

Annotation
/analogs: consider also CURARE-LIKE AGENTS see NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS
DUI
D003472 MeSH Browser
CUI
M0005419
History note
CURARIFORM ANTAGONISTS was heading 1963-69
Online note
use CURARE to search CURARIFORM ANTAGONISTS 1966-69
Public note
CURARIFORM ANTAGONISTS was heading 1963-69

D Chemicals and Drugs
D10 Lipids 2 524
D20.215.784 Plant Preparations 360
D20.215.784.500 Plant Extracts 2 025
D20.215.784.500.087 Flower Essences 9
D20.215.784.500.175 Cascara Sagrada obsolete
D20.215.784.500.200 Curare 47
D20.215.784.500.350 Drugs, Chinese Herbal 130
D20.215.784.500.375 Ginkgo Extract 2
D20.215.784.500.400 Grape Seed Extract 3
D20.215.784.500.450 Ipecac 4
D20.215.784.500.492 Lecithins 19
D20.215.784.500.534 Opium 114
D20.215.784.500.618 Pectins 117
D20.215.784.500.647 Picrotoxin 26
D20.215.784.500.675 Podophyllin 35
D20.215.784.500.720 Psyllium 9
D20.215.784.500.860 Senna Extract 5

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