By interfering with the breakdown of acetylcholine, neostigmine indirectly CNS, but it does cross the placenta.
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Neostigmine can also be used as a reversal agent of rocuronium but is not as effective as sugammadex.
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Neostigmine is made by first reacting 3-dimethylaminophenol with N-dimethylcarbamoyl chloride, which forms a dimethylcarbamate.
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Other members of this chemical group, such as neostigmine, are beneficial in treating diseases like glaucoma and myasthenia gravis.
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Unlike the miotine analog neostigmine, it doesn't have a quaternary ammonium group to give it a permanent positive charge.
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In terms of biological activity, it resembles carbamate insecticides, such as Sevin, and the medicines pyridostigmine, neostigmine, and physostigmine.
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This test requires the intravenous administration of edrophonium chloride or neostigmine, drugs that block the breakdown of acetylcholine by cholinesterase ( acetylcholinesterase inhibitors ).
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Drugs that competitively inhibit acetylcholinesterase ( e . g ., neostigmine, physostigmine, or primarily pyridostigmine ) are effective in treating this disorder.
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Neostigmine will cause slowing of the heart rate ( bradycardia ); for this reason it is usually given along with a parasympatholytic drug such as atropine or glycopyrrolate.
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As an alternative when conventional antivenom is not available, hospitals sometimes use an intravenous version of the antiparalytic drug neostigmine to delay the effects of neurotoxic envenomation through snakebite.
