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Pancuronium Bromide

Drugs acting as smooth muscle relaxants (Anti-Spasmodics)

Description

Pancuronium bromide is a nondepolarizing muscle relaxant approved to induce skeletal muscle relaxation during anesthesia and to facilitate the management of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation.

Mechanism of action

Pancuronium is a typical non-depolarising curaremimetic muscle relaxant.
It acts as a competitive acetylcholine antagonist on neuromuscular junctions, displacing acetylcholine ions (hence competitive) from its post-synaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

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Mechanism of action

Pancuronium is a typical non-depolarising curaremimetic muscle relaxant.
It acts as a competitive acetylcholine antagonist on neuromuscular junctions, displacing acetylcholine ions (hence competitive) from its post-synaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

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