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Neuromuscular Blocking Agents

"Neuromuscular Blocking Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Drugs that interrupt transmission of nerve impulses at the skeletal neuromuscular junction. They can be of two types, competitive, stabilizing blockers (NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS) or noncompetitive, depolarizing agents (NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS). Both prevent acetylcholine from triggering the muscle contraction and they are used as anesthesia adjuvants, as relaxants during electroshock, in convulsive states, etc.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neuromuscular Blocking Agents" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Neuromuscular Blocking Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 71 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2019
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