anticurare

anticurare
A drug property referring to the capacity to reverse the muscle paralysis produced by d-tubocurarine and other curarelike neuromuscular blocking drugs. Examples include neostigmine, pyridostigmine, and edrophonium.

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an·ti·cu·ra·re (an″te-) (an″ti-koo-rahґre) an agent that counteracts the action of curare on skeletal muscle.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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  • Anticurare — refers to the ability of drugs to reverse the muscle paralysis produced by curare. Examples of drugs with anticurare properties include neostigmine, pyridostigmine and edrophonium …   Wikipedia

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