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It doesn’t, it causes the opposite: a depolarisation block, which is why is used as a muscle relaxant in some circumstances. It may be that your recording electrodes were near a cell where curare had not yet diffused to. Or it may be related to disinhibition from blocking interneurons that express nicotinic accetylcholine receptors.
