sentences:  A semi-synthesis of MLA, starting from its "parent" amino-alcohol, [[lycoctonine]] (obtained by simple alkaline hydrolysis of natural MLA ) was reported in 1994.In many respects, the pharmacology of MLA closely resembles that of the classical [[neuromuscular blocker]], [[d-tubocurarine]].The "curare-like" properties of MLA seem to have been first mentioned in 1958 by Kuzovkov and Bocharnikova, working at the Ordzhinikidze All-Union Institute for Scientific Research in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, in the former USSR.