In one form of chemical casualty management training, anesthetized primates are given a chemical called physostigmine, which simulates exposure to a nerve gas by causing cholinergic intoxication. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The reversal of anticholinergic drug-induced delirium and coma with physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
The clinical uses of physostigmine are based upon the facts of its pharmacology, as above detailed. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning: Reversal of coma, choreoathetosis, and myoclonus by physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
There is a marked antagonism in nearly all important particulars between the actions of physostigmine and of atropine. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Each of these contains one-thousandth part of a grain of physostigmine sulphate, a quantity which is perfectly efficient. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Primary treatment is physostigmine, which readily crosses the blood-brain barrier and counters peripheral and central cholinergic blockade. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Consciousness is entirely unaffected by physostigmine, there being apparently no action on any part of the brain above the medulla oblongata. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
It responds to the central cholinesterase inhibitor, physostigmine (2 mg IV); the dosage may be repeated in 20 minutes and again in 30 minutes (145). From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
One report 252 states that IV physostigmine can do the same on a transient basis, but that finding cannot be applied to clinical practice at this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
The examples of physostigmine from the Calabar bean and the life-saving vincristine from the African periwinkle, illustrate past and present contributions. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
But one now has a different point of view with regard to the effect of other substances as well, for example the vegetable bases atropine and physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1936 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Anticholinergic delirium was diagnosed, all psychotropic medication was discontinued, subcutaneous physostigmine was administered, and she became essentially symptom-free within 48 hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Whether administered in the form of the official lamella or by subcutaneous injection, physostigmine causes a contraction of the pupil more marked than in the case of any other known drug. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
When an antidote such as physostigmine for anticholinergic toxicity to drug toxicity is not available, as is often the case, the clinician may need to wait several days or weeks for the condition to clear fully. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
The substance is physostigmine, a drug first isolated from the Calabar bean physostigmine venenosum, a climbing liana that grows in swampy coastal areas of West Africa from Sierra Leone south and east as far as the Cameroons. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
Loewi and Navratil discovered that the breaking down could be prevented by the addition of the vegetable base physostigmine and this made it possible to work out a method which later made the detection of the substance very much easier. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1936 - Presentation Speech] Reference
That this action is a direct and not a nervous one is shown by the fact that if the eye be suddenly shaded the pupil will dilate a little, showing that the nerves which cause dilatation are still competent after the administration of physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The alkaloid calabarine is, on the other hand, a stimulant of the motor and reflex functions of the cord, so that only the pure alkaloid physostigmine and not any preparation of Calabar bean itself should be used when it is desired to obtain this action. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Xalieve (TM) is a gel containing the cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
The substances - scopolamine and physostigmine - act on acetylcholine receptors. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
Ask your diamox manufacturer before you syndrome the physostigmine of your compatibility medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution] Reference
It is administered locally in the mouth where physostigmine diffuses through the mucosa reaching the minor glands. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
If physostigmine could be cooked up in a lab rather than drawn from natural sources, it would be cheaper to produce. From Wordnik.com. [DePauw University News] Reference
• Atropine psychosis (geriatrics) - Hyperactivity, agitation, confusion, flushed skin, sluggish reactive pupils - TTT: IM physostigmine •. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Enhancement of memory processes in Alzheimer’s disease with multiple-dose intravenous physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Has something in it not unlike physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
Obvious examples include nalox - (wanted), metoclopramide-naproxen (the absorp - one for opioid overdose and physostigmine for tion of the latter being hastened by the former for reversal of tubocurarine in anesthesia. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
physostigmine, 40, 42, 110. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference
Acetylcholinesterases, OP's, physostigmine. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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