21. The source of curare in the Amazon was first researched by Richard Evans Schultes in 1941. 22. Curare poisoning can be managed by artificial respiration such as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.23. The Chinese man attacks Carter with curare -tipped acupuncture needles but is overpowered and killed. 24. Until then, few doctors had used curare in patients for fear that it produced permanent paralysis. 25. The muscle-type can be selectively blocked by curare , the neuronal-type by hexamethonium. 26. This results, systemically, in a flaccid paralysis, an action similar to that of curare . 27. Several fashion models are killed by a murderer who poisons a cat's claws with curare . 28. For example, curare is a poison that stops acetylcholine from depolarizing the postsynaptic membrane, causing paralysis. 29. Curare poisoning mimics a total locked-in syndrome by causing paralysis of all voluntarily controlled skeletal muscles.30. Funke also performed research of blood formation in the spleen, and investigations into the effects of curare .
