Background:

Pyrantel tartrate is an antinematodal thiophene; nicotinic receptor agonist and can elicit spastic muscle paralysis in parasitic worms due to prolonged activation of the excitatory nicotinic acetylcholine (nACh) receptors on body wall muscle.

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