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    Curare (/kʊˈrɑːri/ or /kjʊˈrɑːri/; kuu-RAH-ree or kyuu-RAH-ree) is a common name for various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from plant extracts. Used...
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    known to the European world since the Spanish conquest of South America. Curare had been used as a source of arrow poison by South American natives to hunt...
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  • hypnotist Spellbinder; the sound weaponizer Shriek; the deadly assassin Curaré; the insane terrorist Mad Stan; the cybernetically enhanced African big-game...
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  • blowgun darts. Curare has also been used medicinally by South Americans to treat madness, dropsy, edema, fever, kidney stones, and bruises. Curare acts as a...
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  • make-up, however, and his hair has turned completely white. In The Crow: Curare, Carrie's pale skin color is not accomplished by make-up, there is no horizontal...
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    toxic alkaloids and is one of the sources of the arrow poison curare – specifically 'tube curare', the name of which is derived from the name of the medicinally...
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    the site of postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors. Tubocurarine, found in curare of the South American plant Pareira, Chondrodendron tomentosum, is the prototypical...
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  • IDW Crow series followed: The Crow: Skinning the Wolves (2013), The Crow: Curare (2013), The Crow: Pestilence (2014), The Crow: Memento Mori (2018), The...
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  • led her to become the latter was referenced in the episode "A Touch of Curaré". It is also implied that she had an affair with Bruce that ended badly...
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    also had extensive networks of trade, dealing in items such as blow pipes, curare, cassava graters, and other essentials. These trade networks were important...
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  • examples are the poisons secreted from the skin of the poison dart frog, and curare (or 'ampi'), a general term for a range of plant-derived arrow poisons used...
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    Neurotoxin (section Curare)
    The effect with which injected curare poison is usually associated is muscle paralysis and resultant death. Curare notably functions to inhibit nicotinic...
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  • 1901-1958) was best known for an expedition to describe the preparation of curare, and bring back samples, in the 1930s. He also published a book describing...
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    seeds, clay pellets, and darts. Some cultures dip the tip of the darts in curare or other arrow poisons in order to paralyze the target. Blowguns were very...
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    fellowship from the National Research Council to study the plants used to make curare. The entry of the United States into World War II saw Schultes diverted...
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    basilar artery Traumatic brain injury Result from lesion of the brainstem Curare poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning mimic a total locked-in syndrome...
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  • The "Dr. X" killings were a series of suspicious deaths by curare poisoning, in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital. A newspaper investigation...
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    (chandonium iodide) Chlorisondamine Cisatracurium Coclaurine Coronaridine Curare Cyclopropane Dacuronium bromide Decamethonium Dehydronorketamine Desflurane...
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    (chandonium iodide) Chlorisondamine Cisatracurium Coclaurine Coronaridine Curare Cyclopropane Dacuronium bromide Decamethonium Dehydronorketamine Desflurane...
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    neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the 'tube curare' form of the dart poison curare, is derived from the South American liana Chondrodendron...
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  • skeletal muscle relaxants for surgical use that are structurally related to curare. Several are depolarizing agents. Examples of common anticholinergics: Antimuscarinic...
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    afterwards. Accordingly, George Harley (1829–1896) showed in 1850 that curare (wourali) was effective for the treatment of tetanus and strychnine poisoning...
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    (chandonium iodide) Chlorisondamine Cisatracurium Coclaurine Coronaridine Curare Cyclopropane Dacuronium bromide Decamethonium Dehydronorketamine Desflurane...
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    Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. It is the principal source of calabash or gourd curare. Macusine B is an alkaloid inhibitor of adrenergic alpha-receptors and tryptamine...
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  • Wayne-Powers. 11 11 "A Touch of Curaré" Dan Riba Hilary J. Bader May 15, 1999 (1999-05-15) 011 3.6/14 A deadly assassin named Curaré is sent after D.A. Sam Young...
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    connections to immunology, and he studied snake and bee venom, plant poisons and curare. He also organized the production of vaccines against smallpox and rabies...
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    (chandonium iodide) Chlorisondamine Cisatracurium Coclaurine Coronaridine Curare Cyclopropane Dacuronium bromide Decamethonium Dehydronorketamine Desflurane...
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    breed the two kittens, named Punkie and Paloma, to a white Devon Rex named Curare van Jetrophin. The resulting litter produced five kittens: two males from...
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  • They were also concurrently administered muscular paralytic drugs such as curare to subdue them for the purposes of exposure to the looped messages. The...
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    (chandonium iodide) Chlorisondamine Cisatracurium Coclaurine Coronaridine Curare Cyclopropane Dacuronium bromide Decamethonium Dehydronorketamine Desflurane...
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