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Since their introduction into anaesthesia nearly 30 years ago, muscle relaxant drugs have been extensively studied. However, gaps in our knowledge still persist, which explains the appearance of new theories of action still occurring in the literature (1,2).
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Popescu, D.T. (1972). The Use of Muscle Relaxants in Anephric Patients. In: Spierdijk, J., Feldman, S.A. (eds) Anaesthesia and Pharmaceutics. Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2924-7_8
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