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KlappentextHigh Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tubocurarine is an alkaloid of the benzylisoquinoline type. It is an antagonist of nicotinic neuromuscular acetylcholine receptors that is used to paralyse patients undergoing anaesthesia. It is one of the chemicals that can be obtained from curare, itself an extract of Chondrodendron tomentosum, a plant found in South American jungles which is used as a source of arrow poison. Native Indians hunting animals with this poison were able to eat the animal's contaminated flesh without being affected by the toxin because tubocurarine cannot easily cross mucous membranes and is thus inactive orally. Medically, first used in 1912. Introduced in anaesthesia in 1942. The correct chemical structure was only elucidated circa 1970, even though the plant had been known since the Spanish Conquest.
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ISBN/GTIN978-613-1-00395-0
ProduktartBook on Demand
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
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Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum26.02.2013
Seiten84 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.12002613
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