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- Title
©EXPERIMENTS WITH BANANA TRUNK JUICE AS A NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKER.
- Authors
Lee, S. K.; NG, L. L.; Lee, S. I.
- Abstract
The article discusses experiments with banana trunk juice as a neuromuscular blocker. In a non-depolarising blockade of the cholinergic receptor sites in skeletal muscle, the antagonist takes up the sites that acetylcholine (ACh) would normally occupy, and therefore ACh cannot depolarise the muscle and produce the contractions. One way of reversal of such blocks is the use of anticholinesterases which allows a build-up of ACh. The banana trunk extract appears to block in a way where excess ACh fails to reverse it.
- Subjects
NEUROMUSCULAR blocking agents; TREE trunks; CHOLINERGIC receptors; CHOLINESTERASE inhibitors; NEUROTRANSMITTERS; BANANAS
- Publication
Australian Journal of Experimental Biology & Medical Science, 1980, Vol 58, Issue 6, p591
- ISSN
0004-945X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/icb.1980.60