08. Drugs and Somatic Nervous System

Sheila A Doggrell

Discipline of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point, GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001, Australia

Phone +61 7 38705741 Fax +61 7 31381534 Email sheila.doggrell@qut.edu.au

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Key words: somatic nervous system, skeletal muscle, anticholinesterase, neuromuscular blockers, competitive neuromuscular blockers, tubocurarine, mivacurium, vecuronium, rocuronium, depolaring neuromuscular blocker, succinylcholine, botox

8. Drugs and the somatic nervous system

8.1 The somatic nervous system

8.2 Anticholinesterases

8.3 Neuromuscular blockers

8.4 Botox