Mecamylamine
"Mecamylamine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nicotinic antagonist that is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and crosses the blood-brain barrier. Mecamylamine has been used as a ganglionic blocker in treating hypertension, but, like most ganglionic blockers, is more often used now as a research tool.
| Descriptor ID |
D008464
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.849.575.781.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mecamylamine" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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de Moura FB, Hiranita T, McMahon LR. The discriminative stimulus effects of epibatidine in C57BL/6J mice. Behav Pharmacol. 2020 09; 31(6):565-573.
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Badanavalu MP, Srivatsan M. Nicotine is neuroprotective to neonatal neurons of sympathetic ganglion in rat. Auton Neurosci. 2019 01; 216:25-32.