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Antidotes
Agents counteracting or neutralizing the action of POISONS.
Year introduced: 1966(1964)
Antidotes [Pharmacological Action]
Toxins, Biological
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)
Poisoning
A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.
Chelating Agents
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
Antivenins
Antisera used to counteract poisoning by animal VENOMS, especially SNAKE VENOMS.
Year introduced: 1965(1963)
Antitoxins
Antisera from immunized animals that is purified and used as a passive immunizing agent against specific BACTERIAL TOXINS.
Year introduced: 1966
Anticoagulant Reversal Agents
Agents that have the potential to reverse specific anticoagulation therapies.
Year introduced: 2022
Pralidoxime Compounds
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.
Convulsants
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