Chemicals and Drugs

Histamine Agents

Drugs used for their actions on histaminergic systems. Included are drugs that act at histamine receptors, affect the life cycle of histamine, or affect the state of histaminergic cells.

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Abstract

Drugs used for their actions on histaminergic systems. Included are drugs that act at histamine receptors, affect the life cycle of histamine, or affect the state of histaminergic cells.

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Synonyms

15 entry terms
  • Histamine Drugs
  • Histaminergic Agents
  • Histaminergic Drugs
  • Agents, Histamine
  • Agents, Histaminergic
  • Drugs, Histamine
  • Drugs, Histaminergic
  • Histamine Effect
  • Histamine Effects
  • Histaminergic Effect
  • Histaminergic Effects
  • Effect, Histamine
  • Effect, Histaminergic
  • Effects, Histamine
  • Effects, Histaminergic

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Aspects Covered

22 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, analysis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.

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Indexing Annotation

general or unspecified; prefer specifics; note entry term HISTAMINE EFFECT: use only for the histamine effect of a chemical substance

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History Note

95

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Previous Indexing

  • Histamine/pharmacology (1966-1994)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Histamine Agents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018494. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018494
  2. Histamine Agents. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histaminergic
  3. Histamine Agents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18349602