E-type cholinesterase

... is, 1. Give two reasons that may account for the continuous firing of a Postsynaptic Neuron From what I've read, I think one of the reasons is if Cholinesterase wasn't active to destroy the Acetylcholine, and I'm not sure of the other, I'm probably wrong on the first one as well but I'm getting ...

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first of all, cholinesterase is an enzyme not a hormone. Now, about its overproduction: I don't really think it would make that much of a difference. The fact this(i think), there is already enough cholinesterase in the synaptic ...

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We all know about the deadly effects of underproduction of the hormone cholinesterase, but does anyone know of how overproduction of cholinesterase might affect the body? I've searched high and low all over the internet and have not been able to find a single ...

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... surgery... edit: forget about that... i see that you are talking about organophosphate poisoning now [very good example!]... organophosphate is an cholinesterase inhibitor... too much of it causes excessive activation of the parasympathetic nervous system (nausea, vomitting..etc.) and overactivation ...

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... but high dose affect another things away from rapid spontaneous contraction of the muscle fibers the treatment for myasthesia gravis is to give an cholinesterase inhibitor such as neostigme (not to give acetylcholine intravenously?!)... it's action causes inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, which ...

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