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1 Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
A study of blood-brain barrier in sixteen animals subjected to a variety of experimental conditions, plus clinical studies in three patients, failed to demonstrate the passage of d-tubocurarine from plasma into the cerebrospinal fluid following intravenous or intraarterial injection. A theoretical explanation of this barrier is readily provided in terms of lipid solubility and dissociation constant for d-tubocurarine.
Submitted on April 30, 1963