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MeSH Heading: Autacoids
Tree Number(s): D23.469.050
Unique ID: D012898
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012898
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics
Scope Note: A chemically diverse group of substances produced by various tissues in the body that cause slow contraction of smooth muscle; they have other intense but varied pharmacologic activities.
Entry Term(s): Autacoid; Slow-Reacting Substance; Slow-Reacting Substances
Registry Numbers: 0
Previous Indexing: Muscle, Smooth/physiology (1966); specific tissue (1966)
Public MeSH Note: 95; was SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1974-94; AUTACOIDS was see SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1978-94
Online Note: use AUTACOIDS to search SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1967-94 (as Prov 1967-73)
History Note: 95; was SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1967-94 (Prov 1967-73); AUTACOIDS was see SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1978-94
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2021/06/30

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analysis (AN)

antagonists & inhibitors (AI)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

deficiency (DF)

economics (EC)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

physiology (PH)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

supply & distribution (SD)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

urine (UR)

Concept UI: M0019975
Registry Numbers: 0
Scope Note: A chemically diverse group of substances produced by various tissues in the body that cause slow contraction of smooth muscle; they have other intense but varied pharmacologic activities.
Terms: Autacoids Preferred Term
Term UI T038014
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1967); Slow-Reacting Substance
Term UI T001089584
Date10/07/2020
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2022); Autacoid
Term UI T001089585
Date10/07/2020
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2022); Slow-Reacting Substances
Term UI T038015
Date11/24/1993
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1995)

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