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curare
curare (kew-rar-i) n. an extract from the bark of South American trees (Strychnos and Chondodendron species) that relaxes and paralyses voluntary muscle. Curare was formerly employed to control the muscle spasms of tetanus and as a muscle relaxant in surgical operations.
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[ * Poisons used by South American natives on their arrow tips have been found to have medicinal applications. Curare kills birds and animals by relaxing them so much that they can't breathe -- it's used to relax patients' abdominal muscles during surgery. Ouabain has effects similar to digitalis, used for treating congestive heart failure.... ]
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 6/9/2006; 487 words
; * Poisons used by South American natives on their arrow tips have been found to have medicinal applications. Curare kills birds and animals by relaxing them so much that they can't breathe -- it's used to relax patients' abdominal muscles...
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Muscle Relaxants-Intocostrin
Magazine article from: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Once curare was discovered it was evident to many physicians...their many customs and drugs, including curare. In 1932, just before a trip back to...they could obtain sufficient quantities of curare. This was enough to motivate Gill's...
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Muscle Relaxants-Reversal Agents
Magazine article from: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; In the early nineteenth century, curare became available to scientists who were...and seemingly co-operative animals. Curare was self-limiting and the animals would...the drug was acting as an antidote to curare and conducted further experiments to confirm...
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Muscle Relaxants-d-tubocurarine
Magazine article from: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...produced a comprehensive review of the use of curare in North America. The studies revealed that curare was not being used routinely but only when...conditions. As well as an aid to surgery, curare was being used intermittently by many anaesthetists...
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Muscle Relaxants-the Early History
Magazine article from: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...first description of the manufacture of curare and was written by Peter Martyr d'Anghcra...where he witnessed the manufacture of curare by a slightly drunken local "chemist" at a harvest festival. Curare is still manufactured and used by the...
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Una nueva historia del arte en México. (Arte).(Hacia otra historia del arte en México, libro en cuatro volúmenes)(TT: A new history of art in Mexico. (Art).)(TA: book series Hacia otra historia del arte en Mexico)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 5/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; Curare, Espacio Crtico para las Artes, celebra...Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y Curare. En la silenciosa sala de su casa en Tlalpan...Olivier Debroise y otros investigadores: "En Curare estamos una serie de personas provenientes...
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One man's poison...(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 3/20/2005; 700+ words
; ...us through the history of that poison - curare - which centuries later provided vital...life. So what was - is - so awful about curare? The answer is that the poison, extracted...artificial respiration and the dose of curare is carefully measured, it needn't be...
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Stamp vignette on medical science: Daniel Bovet--Nobel Laureate in medicine
Magazine article from: Mayo Clinic Proceedings; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...work on sulfa drugs, antihistamines, curare-like anesthesia, brain-influencing...searched for synthetic substitutes for curare (an alkaloid found in the root of several South American shrubs). Curare paralyzes the muscles, including heart...
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Muscle Relaxants-Decamethonium
Magazine article from: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...appeared in the journal Nature on the curare-like properties of polymethylenc bisquaternary...apparent that this drug was different from curare and its synthetic alternatives. Stanley...he a safe and effective substitute for curare although slightly shorter-acting, requiring...
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HUNTING FOR POISONS.(plants from the Amazon River Region that have medicinal purposes)
Magazine article from: Appleseeds; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that were sources of poisons known as curare (koo-RAH-ray). He did this by finding...poisons might have to medicine. Could curare, which causes paralysis, be used to...National Research Council, Schultes picked curare plants with the Kofan shaman (medicine...
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Curare
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...x2019; final curare preparation is composed of ” curares “ or poisons...strongest type of curare for the hunters of the rainforests. Other curare type plants, however...was discovered that curares can have nonlethal...
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curare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
curare is the name of a crude drug, existing in...considerable amounts of poisonous alkaloids. Curare was prepared by the South American Indian...Chondrodendron species, and Loganiaceae . Curare became available in three major forms with...
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neuromuscular junction
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...of ACh on the muscle could be blocked by the arrow poison, curare. Katz and his co-workers subsequently used intracellular...muscles using an intravenous injection of the otherwise poisonous curare-like drugs — whilst taking over artificially the...
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Bark
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...drinking vessels, arrow poisons, and medicines from bark. Bark has also provided commercial medicines such as quinine and curare, and is also the major source of tannins for the leather industry and cork for wine bottles. In horticulture, bark is used...
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Plant Prospecting
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...are the source of forty-seven commercial drugs, including vincristine (Oncovin), vinblastine (Velban), codeine, curare, quinine, and pilocarpine. Vincristine is the drug of choice for the treatment of childhood leukemia; vinblastine is used...
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