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Neuroprotective Agents

"Neuroprotective Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Drugs intended to prevent damage to the brain or spinal cord from ischemia, stroke, convulsions, or trauma. Some must be administered before the event, but others may be effective for some time after. They act by a variety of mechanisms, but often directly or indirectly minimize the damage produced by endogenous excitatory amino acids.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neuroprotective Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Neuroprotective Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 51 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2003 and 2009 and 2014
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