 Muscle Relaxants, Central
"Muscle Relaxants, Central" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A heterogeneous group of drugs used to produce muscle relaxation, excepting the neuromuscular blocking agents. They have their primary clinical and therapeutic uses in the treatment of muscle spasm and immobility associated with strains, sprains, and injuries of the back and, to a lesser degree, injuries to the neck. They have been used also for the treatment of a variety of clinical conditions that have in common only the presence of skeletal muscle hyperactivity, for example, the muscle spasms that can occur in MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. (From Smith and Reynard, Textbook of Pharmacology, 1991, p358)
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D009125
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.510 D27.505.696.663.700.600 D27.505.954.427.525
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| Concept/Terms |
Muscle Relaxants, Central- Muscle Relaxants, Central
- Central Muscle Relaxants
- Relaxants, Central Muscle
- Centrally Acting Muscle Relaxants
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| 1986 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Maxwell JT, Domeier TL, Blatter LA. Dantrolene prevents arrhythmogenic Ca2+ release in heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2012 Feb 15; 302(4):H953-63.
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Visco CJ, Cheng DS, Kennedy DJ. Pharmaceutical therapy for radiculopathy. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2011 Feb; 22(1):127-37.
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Shannon TR, Lew WY. Diastolic release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum: a potential target for treating triggered arrhythmias and heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 May 26; 53(21):2006-8.
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Diederich NJ, Comella CL, Matge G, Becker G, Schiltz F, Metz H. Sustained effect of high-dose intrathecal baclofen in primary generalized dystonia: a 2-year follow-up study. Mov Disord. 1997 Nov; 12(6):1100-2.
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Bleck TP. Pharmacology of tetanus. Clin Neuropharmacol. 1986; 9(2):103-20.
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