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• n  a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures

• Suspicion focused on succinylcholine chloride, a muscle relaxant commonly used by anesthesiologists.
• From experts, Schaub got all the help he needed on the obscure pharmacodynamical properties of succinylcholine chloride.
• With surgical thoroughness, Schaub showed that Coppolino obtained a lethal amount of succinylcholine chloride supposedly for animal experiments from a friend a month .