A drug having a muscle relaxing effect can be prepared by binding
negatively charged gold nanoparticles having a size of 1.4 nm fitted to
synaptic clefts to choline through ionic bonds, thereby inducing
gold-sulfur bonds in the Cys loop of an acetylcholine receptor in
neuromuscular junction, and thus blocking the electric current induced in
signal transduction from a nerve to a muscle, thereby blocking
neuromuscular transmission chemically and physically. When the reverse is
administered after surgery, the gold-sulfur bonds are broken due to the
re-flow of the electric current, and thus the gold nanoparticles are
again released and metabolized into neuromuscular junction. Further, such
muscle relaxing effect can be applied as an anticonvulsant.