Toxicon
The effects of waglerin-I, a toxin from Trimeresurus wagleri, on neuromuscular (NM) transmission were studied on the phrenic nervediaphragm preparation and triangularis sterni nerve-muscle preparation of mice. The toxin (1.2–4.0 μM) reversibly inhibited the indirectly elicited twitch tension of the diaphragm and decreased the ACh-elicited muscle contracture of chronically denervated diaphragm, while...