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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Drug Discov. 2019 Dec 17;15(3):307–317. doi: 10.1080/17460441.2020.1700225

Table 3.

In vitro models of NMJ for drug testing

Drug Role Refs
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) Sodium channel blocker Zahavi et al., 2015 [45]; Charoensook et al., 2017 [68]; Chipman et al., 2014 [35]
Nifedipine Calcium channel blocker Chipman et al., 2014 [35]
Acetylethylcholine mustard hydrochloride Choline acteyltransferase inhibitor Charoensook et al., 2017 [68]
Neostigmine ACh esterase inhibitor Charoensook et al., 2017 [68]
Pyridostigmine (PYR) ACh esterase inhibitor Steinbeck et al., 2016 [59]
Vesamicol ACh transporter inhibitor Charoensook et al., 2017 [68]
Dynasore Endocytosis inhibitor Chipman et al., 2014 [35]
Agatoxin (ATX) Calcium channel blocker Chipman et al., 2014 [35]
Botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT) ACh vesicle fusion inhibitor Charoensook et al., 2017 [68]; Santhanam et al., 2018 [46]; Afshar Bakooshli et al., 2019 [57]
Tubocurarine (TC) AChR antagonist Guo et al., 2010 [37]; Guo et al., 2011 [38]; Morimoto et al.,2013 [54]; Smith et al., 2013 [56]; Chipman et al., 2014 [35]
Asfhar Bakooshli et al., 2019 [57].
Bungarotoxin (BTX) AChR antagonist Santhanam et al., 2018 [46]; Uzel et al., 2016 [60]; Osaki et al., 2018 [61]; Vila et al., 2019 [62]
Waglerin-1 (WTX) AChR epsilon subunit blocker Asfhar Bakooshli et al., 2019 [57].
Valproic Acid (VPA) Yoshida et al., 2015 [65].
Phosphorodiamidate morpholino Antisense oligonucleotide Yoshida et al., 2015 [65].
Rapamycin neuroprotective drug Osaki et al., 2018 [61].
Bosutinib neuroprotective drug Osaki et al., 2018 [61].

ACh: acetylcholine