papaverine in English

noun
1
a compound present in opium used medicinally to alleviate muscle spasms and asthma.
The alkaloid was first synthesized by Pictet and Gams in 1909, and as the amount of papaverine obtained from opium is small, the synthetic route remains the source of this compound up to the present day.

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1. It has an adrenolytic, antihistaminic papaverine-like vasodilator action.

2. Musculotropic Antispasmodics, including papaverine and drotav-erinum, directly act on the smooth muscles

3. Musculotropic Antispasmodics, including papaverine and drotav-erinum, directly act on the smooth muscles

4. The results were: phencarbamide and atropine are effective as central analgesic, but not papaverine and benzyl mandelate.

5. 18 OBJECTIVE: To establish the method of assay for the bacterial endotoxin in papaverine hydrochloride and sodium chloride injection.

6. Papaverine alone (10 mg/kg) also reduced the acute death rate in anaphylatoxin shock and—to a lesser degree—in histamine shock.

7. P-286 is devoid of adrenolytic or sympatholytic actions, exerts a slight para-sympatholytic action and depresses heart rate and contractile force; it has a papaverine-like antispasmodic action.

8. Because of its unspecific-spasmolytic, papaverine-like properties prenylamine inhibited the actions of acetylcholine and histamine on the guinea pig ileum and the actions of acetylcholine and NA on the vas deferens of rat in a non-competitive manner.