Non-relaxant properties of neuromuscular blocking drugs.
Non-relaxant properties of neuromuscular blocking drugs.
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神经肌肉阻滞药物的非松弛特性。
DOI:
10.1093/bja/54.2.147
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
W. Bowman
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作者:
W. Bowman
Theoretically, new compounds with neuromuscular blocking activity might additionally produce almost any type of unwanted pharmacological effect. However, the accumulated knowledge of structure-action relationships in this field is such that medicinal chemists are able to produce effective neuromuscular blocking drugs more predictably, and with less reliance on serendipity, than is the case with any other class of drugs (see, for example, Martin-Smith, 1971). Consequently, most kinds of unwanted activity can be avoided altogether by appropriate molecular design, and any new compounds that do happen to produce unusual unwanted effects can often be discarded at an early stage in preclinical tests. The result is, as experience has taught, that the additional and unwanted actions of neuromuscular blocking drugs mainly (although perhaps not entirely) stem from two characteristic features of the molecules, as pointed out by Paton (1959) more than 20 years ago. One characteristic feature is that the drugs in general use are all organic bases and they might therefore give rise to the rather non-specific effects sometimes produced by such compounds (eg histamine release). The other is that, in order to interact with the recognition sites of the cholinoceptors at the neuromuscular junction (ie to achieve their desired effect), the drugs must bear some chemical relationship to acetylcholine. Consequently, there is the possibility that they might compete with or mimic acetylcholine at other sites (eg cholinesterase, nicotinic autonomic ganglion receptors, and muscarinic receptors). Marshall (1980) has recently reviewed the actions of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs at cholinoceptors other than those at the motor endplate. In the following description actions arising from these two main molecular features are discussed. A few additional actions that as yet cannot