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Title: Mechanism and clinical importance of respiratory failure induced by anticholinesterases
Authors: Ivosevic, Anita
Miletić N.
Vulovič M.
Vujković Z.
Bursac S.
Cetkovic S.
Škrbić R.
Stojiljković M.
Issue Date: 2017
Abstract: © 2017, University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science. All rights reserved. Respiratory failure is the predominant cause of death in humans and animals poisoned with anticholinesterases. Organophosphorus and carbamate anticholinesterases inhibit acetylcholinesterase irreversibly and reversibly, respectively. Some of them contain a quaternary atom that makes them lipophobic, limiting their action at the periphery, i.e. outside the central nervous system. They impair respiratory function primarily by inducing a desensitization block of nicotinic receptors in the neuromuscular synapse. Lipophilic anticholinesterases inhibit the acetylcholinesterase both in the brain and in other tissues, including respiratory muscles. Their doses needed for cessation of central respiratory drive are significantly less than doses needed for paralysis of the neuromuscular transmission. Antagonist of muscarinic receptors atropine blocks both the central and peripheral muscarinic receptors and effectively antagonizes the central respiratory depression produced by anticholinesterases. To manage the peripheral nicotinic receptor hyperstimulation phenomena, oximes as acetylcholinesterase reactivators are used. Addition of diazepam is useful for treatment of seizures, since they are cholinergic only in their initial phase and can contribute to the occurrence of central respiratory depression. Possible involvement of central nicotinic receptors as well as the other neurotransmitter systems - glutamatergic, opioidergic - necessitates further research of additional antidotes.
URI: https://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/8724
Type: review
DOI: 10.1515/SJECR-2016-0047
ISSN: 1820-8665
SCOPUS: 2-s2.0-85044150298
Appears in Collections:Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kragujevac

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