Talk:Reserpine
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- “High dose studies in rodents found reserpine to cause fibroadenoma of the breast and malignant tumors of the semen vesicles among others. Early suggestions that reserpine causes breast cancer in women (risk approximately doubled) were not confirmed.”
Would it be possible to name the source for this two sentences? --Gardini 10:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I've given this article an importance rating of "High", due to the fact that it operates under a unique mechanism which is of illustrative importance and the fact that it has been extensively used (particularly in models of monoamine depletion). Fuzzform 20:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Strange assertion
The article currently states:
Moreover, reserpine has a peripheral action in many parts of the body, resulting in a preponderance of the cholinergic part of the nervous system (GI tract, smooth muscles vessels).
This statement appears to mean (1) that reserpine affects many parts of the body directly and individually, (2) that the gastro-intentinal tract and the "smooth muscles vessels" (blood vessels involved in smooth muscles???) are parts of the nervous system, and (3) these parts of the nervous system are, because of the peripheral action of reserpine, made to hold a "preponderance" over some other, unmentioned, part or parts of the nervous system.
The quoted statement is remarkably convoluted structurally and leaves the reader to attempt unsuccessfully to guess what the writer was trying to convey.P0M (talk) 10:24, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
