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Nitroglycerin

"Nitroglycerin" 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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A volatile vasodilator which relieves ANGINA PECTORIS by stimulating GUANYLATE CYCLASE and lowering cytosolic calcium. It is also sometimes used for TOCOLYSIS and explosives.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nitroglycerin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nitroglycerin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1994
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