Look up: Curare

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   Curare
   Curare is a poison derived from the bark of a South American tree.
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   Curare
   Curare: A muscle relaxant used in anesthesia (and, in the past, in arrow poisons by South American Indians). Curare competes with acetylcholine, a chemical that carries information between nerve and muscle cells, and blocks transmission of the information.
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   curare
   aqueous extract from plants of the Strychnos family Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   curare
   Curare alkaloids are the active ingredients of arrow poisons used by S. American Indians; they have muscle-relaxant properties because they block motor endplate transmission, acting as competitive antagonists for acetylcholine.
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   curare
   <drug> Curare alkaloids are the active ingredients of arrow poisons used by South American Indians. ... Alkaloids that have muscle relaxant properties because they block motor end plate transmission, acting as competitive antagonists for acetylcholine. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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   Curare
   `This page is about the plant toxins. For the DC Comics character, see Curare.` `Curare is not to be confused with Curara.` `Curare` is a common name for various dart poisons (arrow poisons) originating from South America. The three main types, or families of curare are: * the tubocurare (also known as tube or bamboo curare, because of its packing into hollow bamboo tubes; main toxin is D-tubocurarine). It is a mono-quaternary alkaloid, an isoq...
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   curare
   (koo-rah´re) any of a wide variety of highly toxic extracts from various botanical sources, including various species of Strychnos, a genus of tropical trees; used originally as arrow poisons in South America. A form extracted from the shrub Chondodendron tomentosum has been used as a skeletal muscle relaxant.
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   Curare
   • (n.) Alt. of Curari
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   curare
   skeletal-muscle–relaxant drug belonging to the alkaloid family of organic compounds. Of botanical origin, it is used in modern medicine primarily as ... [11 related articles]
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    curare
    An extract of various plants, especially Strychnos toxifera, S. castelnaei, S. crevauxii, and Chondodendron tomentosum, that produces nondepolarizing paralysis of skeletal muscle after intravenous injection by blocking transmission at the myoneuronal junction; used clinically (e.g., as d-tubocurarine chloride, metocurine iodide) to provide muscle r...
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    curare
    curare (kyoorär'ē) , any of a variety of substances originally used as arrow poisons by Native South Americans in hunting and in warfare. The main active substance of curare, tubocurarine, is an alkaloid extracted from Chondodendron tomentosum, Strychnos toxifera, and other plant spec...
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