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Diphenhydramine

"Diphenhydramine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A histamine H1 antagonist used as an antiemetic, antitussive, for dermatoses and pruritus, for hypersensitivity reactions, as a hypnotic, an antiparkinson, and as an ingredient in common cold preparations. It has some undesired antimuscarinic and sedative effects.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Diphenhydramine" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Diphenhydramine" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003 and 2008
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.