The main purposes of this paper are to consider the indications for curare and its comparison with other agents and to present experience with the use of curare (Intocostrin¶) in 450 cases. The basis ...
The conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison.
For the first time, three-dimensional images of protein being paralyzed by the poison curare have been made. Curare has a paralyzing effect and the poison’s active chemical component is used in lung ...
FOR the past few centuries, curare has been dismissed lightly as being synonymous with the generic name of several arrow poisons of certain South American Indians, but investigation of its ...
Now that tubocurarine, one of the curare alkaloids, is gaining importance in medicine, it is important that this compound and other curare-like substances should be biologically standardized. A ...
UC Santa Cruz History Professor Matt O’Hara has received a prestigious $60,000 Public Scholars award from the National Endowment For The Humanities. The funding will support O’Hara’s research project ...
The Indian arrow poison curare (rhymes with safari) is sometimes used in abdominal surgery and in spastic paralysis, to relax taut muscles. But doctors have not generally liked it much, because an ...
The history of surgery is often divided into an era described as “before Griffith” and one as “after Griffith” based on Dr. Harold Griffith’s introduction of curare in 1942 as a muscle relaxant in ...
Curare, a drug which blocks nerve impulses at the myoneural junction, has been used in investigations aimed at the identification of the receptor substance of acetylcholine. This article reviews the ...
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