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What Is Atropine?

1. What is atropine? 2. How is it used in your profession? 3. What are the effects of atropine? 4. From which plant or plant s is atropine obtained? 5. Where do these plants grow? (Country or countries? Geographical region?) 6. What does it look like?
Fri, 16 Jan 2015
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Atropine is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid extracted from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), Jimson weed (Datura stramonium), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) and other plants of the family Solanaceae.
Atropine is parasympatholytic.
Topical atropine is used as a cycloplegic, to temporarily paralyze the accommodation reflex, and as a mydriatic, to dilate the pupils.
Atropine can be useful in treating hyperhidrosis.
Atropine also serves as a treatment for poisoning by organophosphate insecticides and nerve gases, such as tabun, sarin, soman.
Atropine dilates the pupils, increases heart rate, and reduces salivation and other secretions.
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What Is Atropine?

hi Atropine is a naturally occurring tropane alkaloid extracted from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), Jimson weed (Datura stramonium), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) and other plants of the family Solanaceae. Atropine is parasympatholytic. Topical atropine is used as a cycloplegic, to temporarily paralyze the accommodation reflex, and as a mydriatic, to dilate the pupils. Atropine can be useful in treating hyperhidrosis. Atropine also serves as a treatment for poisoning by organophosphate insecticides and nerve gases, such as tabun, sarin, soman. Atropine dilates the pupils, increases heart rate, and reduces salivation and other secretions. Hope this is helpful.