The main purposes of this paper are to consider the indications for curare and its comparison with other agents and to present experience with the use of curare (Intocostrin¶) in 450 cases. The basis ...

The conquistadors had no sooner begun cutting their way through the jungles of South America than they found themselves suffering casualties from Indian darts tipped with a potent, paralyzing poison.

For the first time, three-dimensional images of protein being paralyzed by the poison curare have been made. Curare has a paralyzing effect and the poison’s active chemical component is used in lung ...

FOR the past few centuries, curare has been dismissed lightly as being synonymous with the generic name of several arrow poisons of certain South American Indians, but investigation of its ...

UC Santa Cruz History Professor Matt O’Hara has received a prestigious $60,000 Public Scholars award from the National Endowment For The Humanities. The funding will support O’Hara’s research project ...

“A fantastic poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels” was Dr. Harold R. Griffith’s first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week’s Canadian Medical ...

Curare, a drug which blocks nerve impulses at the myoneural junction, has been used in investigations aimed at the identification of the receptor substance of acetylcholine. This article reviews the ...

Professor Stanley Feldman has spent 50 years studying curare - the plant poison used by Amazonian Indians on the tips of their blow darts. He's injected himself with it and even once had an accidental ...

Article Published: 13 August 1955 Curare Alkaloids Nature 176, 278–280 (1955) Cite this article ...