Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Therapeutic Uses > Central Nervous System Agents > Neuroprotective Agents
Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Protective Agents > Neuroprotective Agents
Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Protective Agents > Neuroprotective Agents

Preferred term

Neuroprotective Agents  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Agent, Neuroprotective
  • Drug, Neuroprotective
  • Drugs, Neuroprotective
  • Neuroprotectant
  • Neuroprotectants
  • Neuroprotective Agent
  • Neuroprotective Drug
  • Neuroprotective Drugs

Note

  • note entry term NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECT: use only for the neuroprotective effect of a chemical substance

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 95

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018696

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/3/94, last modified 5/27/20