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Curare does NOT create an action potential. It binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (which are primarily excitatory), and prevents the formation of an action potential.
Curare reduces the response to nerve stimulation because it acts as a neuro-muscular blocking agent, or muscle relaxant. It is also known as tubocurarine.
It creates an action potential
It doesn't. I prevents an action potential from forming.
Curare is not hazardous if taken by mouth; it must be administered into the bloodstream. When it is in the blood, it can cause paralysis of all nerves and muscles.
Curare is a skeletal muscle relaxant it acts as a neuromuscular blocking agent. It reduces shivering. But, can be considered quite lethal.
it is an alpha-toxin that binds to acetylcholine binding sites on the postsynaptic cell membrane, which prevents the acetylcholine from acting. Curare blocks synaptic transmission by preventing neural impulses to flow from neuron to neuron. It does allow the action potential to travel in the axon, it just doesn't pass it on to the dendrite.
No animal eats the plant curare. This is because the plant curare is toxic. The plant is poisonous and therefore is not consumed by animals.
Nope, that's how poisons like botox or curare work. They paralyze your muscles and then you are unable to breathe and you die.
CURARE PARAlYSES MUSCELS
Plants are useful for many things. Some plants give us medicine. Other plants supply us with poison So that we can get rid of our teachers. Curare for example was developed By South American indigenous people From the foliage of the Calebas. Macusi Indians graded their Curare As One Tree Curare, Two Tree Curare ... and so on. To show how many trees a monkey could jump Before the Curare caused him to stop breathing. We would call our Curare One Lesson Curare, Two Lesson Curare .... and so on. Do teachers breathe?
Doctors use curare to help keep animals alive during surgeries. The curare helps to keep the animals respiratory systems going during surgery.