"Muscarine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A toxic alkaloid found in Amanita muscaria (fly fungus) and other fungi of the Inocybe species. It is the first parasympathomimetic substance ever studied and causes profound parasympathetic activation that may end in convulsions and death. The specific antidote is atropine.
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D009116
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.877.883.777 D02.675.276.580 D03.132.545
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Pirch JH, Turco K, Rucker HK. A role for acetylcholine in conditioning-related responses of rat frontal cortex neurons: microiontophoretic evidence. Brain Res. 1992 Jul 17; 586(1):19-26.