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1
If a person has been nerve gassed (i.e. exposed to one of the anticholinesterases), one symptom of the condition may be pin-point pupils. Please explain.
2
Angry people can often be seen to have very dilated pupils. Why?
3
The tobacco plant produces nicotine, several giant toadstools produce muscarine, and certain nerve gases (originally produced to kill people) are used as insecticides: what do all of these facts tell us about an insect's neurons?
4
The muscles controlling pupil constriction are cholinergic. The cholinesterase is inhibited thus allowing the acetylcholine to stay in the synaptic gap longer and overstimulating the constrictors.







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