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Muscle Relaxants, Central

Known as: Centrally Acting Muscle Relaxants, Central Muscle Relaxants, Relaxants, Central Muscle 
A heterogeneous group of drugs used to produce muscle relaxation, excepting the neuromuscular blocking agents. They have their primary clinical and… 
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Muscle relaxantsNeuromuscular Agents

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2014
2014
To compare the efficacy and safety of fixed dose combination of thiocolchicoside and aceclofenac versus chlorzoxazone, aceclofenac and paracetamol in patients with acute lower backache associated…
Background: The fixed dose combinations (FDCs) of muscle relaxants, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and paracetamol are… 
2010
2010
Risk for Fractures with Centrally Acting Muscle Relaxants: An Analysis of a National Medicare Advantage Claims Database
Background: In older adults, both muscle relaxants and benzodiazepines are associated with sedation and cognitive impairment… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
The use of neuromuscular blocking drugs in intensive care practice
Critically ill patients represent a very different population from that of the operating theatre, but much of our knowledge of… 
1995
1995
Structure-pharmacodynamic-pharmacokinetic relationships of steroidal neuromuscular blocking agents.
  • J. WierdaJ. Proost
  • European Journal of Anaesthesiology - Supplement
  • 1995
  • Corpus ID: 20230682
Several new steroidal non-depolarizing muscle relaxants have been synthesized and tested in humans recently. Results from these… 
1989
1989
Comparative study in mice of tetrazepam and other centrally active skeletal muscle relaxants.
Tetrazepam is a 1,4 benzodiazepine (BZD) clinically used in France and Germany as a muscle relaxant. The activity of tetrazepam… 
1987
1987
Hand grip force as an assessment of recovery from neuromuscular block
  • W. J. RussellDonald G. Serle
  • Journal of clinical monitoring
  • 1987
  • Corpus ID: 195693037
A simple hydraulic hand dynamometer was used to assess the hand grip force before and after general anesthesia. Eight patients… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Pharmacological studies on 6-amino-2-fluoromethyl-3-(O-tolyl)-4(3H)-quinazolinone (afloqualone), a new centrally acting muscle relaxant. (II) Effects on the spinal reflex potential and the rigidity.
Effects of afloqualone on mono- (MSR) and poly-synaptic reflex (PSR) potentials and alpha- and gamma-rigidities were studied in… 
1971
1971
Locus of action of centrally acting muscle relaxants, diazepam and tybamate.
Diazepam and tybamate have previously been reported to depress spinal polysynaptic reflexes. The dose-response relationships for… 
1966
1966
[Kawa pyrone--a new kind of substance group of central muscle relaxants of the mephenesin type].
Die Inhaltsstoffe des Kawa-Rhizoms, die sog. Kawa-Pyrone, besitzen in ausgepragter Weise die Eigenschaften eines… 
1963
1963
Prolonged respiratory depression caused by drug combinations. Muscle relaxants and intraperitoneal antibiotics as etiologic agents.
EVEN BEFORE the neuromuscular blocking effect of certain antibiotics had been discovered, prolonged, 1 and, on occasion… 
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