Efficacy of tricaine methanesulfonate (MS-222) as an anesthetic agent for blocking sensory-motor responses in Xenopus laevis tadpoles.
Anesthetics are drugs that reversibly relieve pain, decrease body movements and suppress neuronal activity.Most drugs only cover one of these effects; for instance, analgesics relieve pain but fail to block primary fiber responses to noxious stimuli.Alternately, paralytic drugs block synaptic transmission at neuromuscular junctions, thereby effecti