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Cholinesterase Inhibitors

Known as: Anti-Cholinesterases, Inhibitors, Cholinesterase, anti cholinesterase 
Drugs that inhibit cholinesterases. The neurotransmitter ACETYLCHOLINE is rapidly hydrolyzed, and thereby inactivated, by cholinesterases. When… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Prophylaxis against soman inhalation toxicity in guinea pigs by pretreatment alone with human serum butyrylcholinesterase.
Human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBChE) has previously been shown to protect mice, rats, and monkeys against multiple lethal toxic… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Confirmation of anatoxin-a(s), in the cyanobacterium Anabaena lemmermannii, as the cause of bird kills in Danish lakes.
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Activation and degradation of the phosphorothionate insecticides parathion and EPN by rat brain.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Isolation, anticholinesterase properties, and acute toxicity in mice of the four stereoisomers of the nerve agent soman.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Differential alterations of cholinergic muscarinic receptors during chronic and acute tolerance to organophosphorus insecticides.
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Pharmacological study of a cholinergic mechanism within the rat posterior hypothalamic nucleus which mediates a hypertensive response
Review
1979
Review
1979
Receptor alterations and drug tolerance.
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
THE SITE OF THE 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE RECEPTOR ON THE INTRAMURAL NERVOUS PLEXUS OF THE GUINEA-PIG ISOLATED ILEUM.
Dose/response measurements were made on the guinea-pig isolated ileum with six agonists, acetylcholine, 5-hydroxytryptamine… 
Highly Cited
1955
Highly Cited
1955
Cholinergic mechanism involved in function of mesodiencephalic activating system.
A previous investigation 1 dealt with the action of cholinergic drugs and of atropine on the electrical activity of the rabbit… 
Highly Cited
1949
Highly Cited
1949
Actions of anti-cholinesterases on endplate potential of frog muscle.
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