Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics or atropinics? about the words in pharmacology

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 561-562

  Montastruc, Jean Louis ^a,b   Durrieu, Geneviève ^a,b   Sommet, Agnès ^a,b   Damase Michel, Christine ^a,b   Lapeyre Mestre, Maryse ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ATRACURIUM; ATROPINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CALCIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CONOTOXIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MECAMYLAMINE; MUSCARINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MYDRIATIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ORPHENADRINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE; TOLTERODINE; TRIMETAPHAN; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DEPOLARIZATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; EFFECTOR CELL; EXCITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; NORWAY; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THALAMUS;

CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS;

EID: 77950647428     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: 13652125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2010.03633.x     Document Type: Letter

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