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Tubocurarine vs Benzylisoquinoline - What's the difference?

tubocurarine | benzylisoquinoline |

As nouns the difference between tubocurarine and benzylisoquinoline

is that tubocurarine is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid, obtained from curare and sometimes used to paralyse patients undergoing anaesthesia while benzylisoquinoline is the structural backbone of many alkaloids with a wide variety of structures, including papaverine, noscapine, codeine, morphine, apomorphine, berberine, protopine and tubocurarine.

tubocurarine

English

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia tubocurarine)
  • (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid, obtained from curare and sometimes used to paralyse patients undergoing anaesthesia.

    • Related terms

    * tubocurare

    benzylisoquinoline

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia benzylisoquinoline)
  • (chemistry) The structural backbone of many alkaloids with a wide variety of structures, including papaverine, noscapine, codeine, morphine, apomorphine, berberine, protopine and tubocurarine.