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| Bisset,Norman G.. |
| Some aspects of curare research carried out over the last 25 years are discussed. Accepting a pharmacological rather than purely ethnological definition means, that curares are not limited to South America but that they are also known from Central Africa and South-EastAsia. Among the criteria that have been suggested for classifying South American curares: type of container, geographical origin, botanical sourcesof the active, constituent!, and chemical composition. A combination of botanical and geographical criteria leads to much the same regional ;groupings a combination of criteria involving the type of container and the chemical composition. The active principles in curares may derive from members of thr Loganiaceae (Strychnos) and/or Menispermaceae... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671988000500255 |
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