curare
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4,896 papers- [Curare and burns].Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation · 1994
- Curare.Cleveland Clinic quarterly · 1946
- Curare therapy.Journal of the American Medical Association · 1945
- [Curare].Revista medica cubana · 1951
- [Curare].Ugeskrift for laeger · 1952
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17 sectionsContents
- History
- Classification
- Hunting uses
- Medical use
- Chemical structure
- Pharmacological properties
- Anesthesia
- Plant sources
- Toxicity
- Preparation
- Adjuvants
- Diagnosis and management of curare poisoning
- Chemical antidote
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thumb|Chondrodendron tomentosum, the main source of 'tube curare' and principal source of [[D-tubocurarine (DTC), the alkaloid constituting medicinal curare]] thumb|Strychnos toxifera, the [[Strychnos species which is the principal source of 'calabash curare' and its main active constituent, the alkaloid toxiferine]]
Curare ( or ; or ) is a common name for various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from plant extracts. Used as a paralyzing agent by indigenous peoples in Central and South America for hunting and for therapeutic purposes, curare only becomes active when it contaminates a wound or is introduced directly to the bloodstream; it is not active when ingested orally.