MeSH

Agents counteracting or neutralizing the action of POISONS.

Year introduced: 1966(1964)

Specific, characterizable, poisonous chemicals, often PROTEINS, with specific biological properties, including immunogenicity, produced by microbes, higher plants (PLANTS, TOXIC), or ANIMALS.

Year introduced: 2006(1966)

A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.

Chemicals that bind to and remove ions from solutions. Many chelating agents function through the formation of COORDINATION COMPLEXES with METALS.

Year introduced: HEAVY METAL DETOXICANTS was heading 1963-1965

Antisera used to counteract poisoning by animal VENOMS, especially SNAKE VENOMS.

Year introduced: 1965(1963)

Antisera from immunized animals that is purified and used as a passive immunizing agent against specific BACTERIAL TOXINS.

Year introduced: 1966

Agents that have the potential to reverse specific anticoagulation therapies.

Year introduced: 2022

Various salts of a quaternary ammonium oxime that reconstitute inactivated acetylcholinesterase, especially at the neuromuscular junction, and may cause neuromuscular blockade. They are used as antidotes to organophosphorus poisoning as chlorides, iodides, methanesulfonates (mesylates), or other salts.

Year introduced: 1965(1963)

Substances that act in the brain stem or spinal cord to produce tonic or clonic convulsions, often by removing normal inhibitory tone. They were formerly used to stimulate respiration or as antidotes to barbiturate overdose. They are now most commonly used as experimental tools.

Year introduced: 1975