pharmacology
| Subheading | pharmacology |
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| Record Type | Q |
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| Entry Version | PHARMACOL |
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| Abbreviation | PD |
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| Scope Note | Used with drugs and exogenously administered chemical substances for their effects on living tissues and organisms. It includes acceleration and inhibition of physiological and biochemical processes and other pharmacologic mechanisms of action. |
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| Annotation | subhead only; with exogenous chemicals only; includes "effect", "mechanism of action", "mode of action"; not for pharmacokinetics ( = /
pharmacokinetics); see also /
adverse effects, /
poisoning & /
toxicity; see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.54; DF: /pharmacol or /PD |
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| Online Note | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/PD or PD (SH) or SUBS APPLY PD; use /pharmacology or /PD to search /pharmacodynamics back thru 1966 |
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| History Note | 88; was /pharmacodynamics 1966-87; used with Category D 1966 forward |
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| Entry Term | mechanism of action |
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| Entry Term | mode of action |
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| Entry Term | pharmacodynamics |
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| Entry Term | pharmacologic action |
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| Date of Entry | 19731227 |
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| Revision Date | 20030724 |
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| Date Established | 19660101 |
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| Unique ID | Q000494 |
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