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Descriptor English:   Veratrum Alkaloids 
Descriptor Spanish:   Alcaloides de Veratrum 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Alcalóides de Veratrum 
Tree Number:   D03.132.920
Definition English:   Alkaloids with powerful hypotensive effects isolated from American or European Hellebore (Veratrum viride Ait. Liliaceae and Veratrum album L. Liliaceae). They increase cholinergic and decrease adrenergic tone with appropriate side effects and at higher doses depress respiration and produce cardiac arrhythmias; only the ester alkaloids have been used as hypotensive agents in specific instances. They have been generally replaced by drugs with fewer adverse effects. 
Indexing Annotation English:   antihypertensives
Pharmacological Action:   Antihypertensive Agents
 
History Note English:   75 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
administration & dosage adverse effects
agonists antagonists & inhibitors
analysis blood
cerebrospinal fluid chemistry
classification chemical synthesis
contraindications diagnostic use
economics history
immunology isolation & purification
metabolism pharmacology
pharmacokinetics poisoning
radiation effects supply & distribution
standards toxicity
therapeutic use urine
Record Number:   15109 
Unique Identifier:   D014704 

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