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Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action > Enzyme Inhibitors > Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors

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Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Inhibitor, MAO
  • Inhibitor, Monoamine Oxidase
  • Inhibitors, MAO
  • MAO Inhibitor
  • MAO Inhibitors
  • Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor

Scope note

  • A chemically heterogeneous group of drugs that have in common the ability to block oxidative deamination of naturally occurring monoamines. (From Gilman, et al., Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed, p414)

In other languages

  • MAO-estäjät

    Finnish

  • MAO-estäjä
  • MAO-inhibiittori
  • MAO-inhibiittorit
  • monoamiinioksidaasin estäjä
  • monoamiinioksidaasin estäjät
  • monoamiinioksidaasin inhibiittori
  • monoamiinioksidaasin inhibiittorit
  • Monoaminoxidashämmare

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008996

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