28 28 GENERIC NAME PAGE 4-Aminopyridine 340 Atracurium 343 Baclofen 344 Botulinum toxin A 340 Cyclobenzaprine 345 Dantrolene 344 3,4-Diaminopyridine 340 Diazepam 344 GENERIC NAME PAGE Guanidine 340 Mivacurium 343 Pancuronium 343 Rapacuronium 343 Rocuronium 343 Succinylcholine 341 d-Tubocurarine 342 Vecuronium 343 Neuromuscular transmission involves the events leading from the liberation of acet...

Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is associated with significant postoperative morbidity, but its effects on the neuromuscular system are unclear. Recent studies indicate that even relatively short periods of mechanical ventilation result in significant neuromuscular effects. Carbon monoxide (CO) has gained recent attention as therapy to reduce the deleterious effects of CPB. We hypothesized that 1)...

The electrical and mechanical responses of body, leg and jaw muscle of Peripatus to electrical excitation of their motor-nerves were examined. A small twitch was obtained from each muscle, whose strength increased stepwise with increasing stimulus strength. In jaw and body muscles as many as ten increments in height were obtained with increasing stimulus strength. Only a single twitch height wa...

In this study, effects of Buthus eupeus venom on chick biventer cervices nerve-muscle preparation were investigated by twitch tension method. The venom, at 1.3 ?g/ml, increased contractile responses in indirect stimulations. These effects were milder in direct muscle stimulations. It also caused significant enhancement in postjunctional sensitivity as assessed by responses to exogenous acetylch...

Recombinant DNA technology and the development of the patch clamp technique for the recording of single channel activity have produced major advances in understanding the development of the neuromuscular synapse as well as functional aspects of neuromuscular transmission at the molecular level. In this abstract a short summary of the molecular mechanisms regulating neuromuscular synapse formati...