Uses
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors:
- Occur naturally as venoms and poisons
- Are used as weapons in the form of nerve agents
- Are used as insecticides
- Are used medicinally:
- To treat myasthenia gravis. In myasthenia gravis, they are used to increase neuromuscular transmission.
- To treat glaucoma
- To treat Alzheimer's disease
- To treat Lewy Body Dementia
- To treat Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
- As an antidote to anticholinergic poisoning
- To reverse the effect of non-depolarising muscle relaxants
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