Structured Summary
Abstract
A chemically diverse group of substances produced by various tissues in the body that cause slow contraction of smooth muscle; they have other intense but varied pharmacologic activities.
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- Autacoid
- Slow-Reacting Substance
- Slow-Reacting Substances
- Slow Reacting Substance
- Slow Reacting Substances
- Substance, Slow-Reacting
- Substances, Slow-Reacting
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Aspects Covered
28 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, deficiency, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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History Note
95; was SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1967-94 (Prov 1967-73); AUTACOIDS was see SLOW-REACTING SUBSTANCES 1978-94
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Previous Indexing
- Muscle, Smooth/physiology (1966)
- specific tissue (1966)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Autacoids. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012898. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012898
- Autacoids. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autacoid
- Autacoids. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q424673