gallamine


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Related to gallamine: Atracurium, Pancuronium, Suxamethonium
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neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia

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After stabilisation, gallamine was administered and the depression of thumb muscle tension and the subsequent recovery were recorded.
On sum up, ligand K bonds only to the PAS site like the known allosteric inhibitors decidium (DI), propidium (PI), ethidium, and gallamine (GAL) [36-38, 48] salicylanilide N-Alkylcarbamates [23].
Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized with isoflurane, paralyzed with gallamine, artificially ventilated and instrumented to record arterial blood pressure (BP; mm Hg), heart rate (HR; bpm) and left ventricular dP/dt (percent change from control; LVC; an index of cardiac contractile force).
Presumably its use in Operation Desert Storm would be to protect persons from the effects of a type of nerve gas; it is already approved by FDA for use as an antidote to curariform drugs and gallamine triethoxide, drugs that have toxic effects related to those of the nerve gas in question.
They were anesthetized with ketamine hydrochloride (Ketaset, Butler Animal Health, Middletown, PA, dose[approximately equal to] 30 mg/kg) injected intramuscularly and paralyzed with the neuro-muscular blocking drug gallamine triethiodide (Flaxedil, Sigma Chemical Co., St.
At the start of my training in 1962 suxamethonium was widely used for intubation, as the two non-depolarizing relaxants curare and gallamine in doses that would lead to easy and early reversal provided prolonged intubation times.
Adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) obtained from a colony maintained at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, were anesthetized using 0.02% tricaine, immobilized with a 2-[micro]l injection of 1% gallamine triethiodide (Flaxidil), and placed on their sides on a small sponge over a silver chloride pellet reference electrode.
The response to suxamethonium and gallamine was largely unaltered by halothane, but with d-tubocurarine, profound bradycardia and hypotension occurred, and also to a lesser extent with neostigmine.
Tubocurarine was the drug of choice for operations of any significant duration, but because tubocurarine lasted around thirty minutes, gallamine was often preferred for shorter operations.