Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Theobromine

"Theobromine" 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.

MeSH information
Definition  |  Details  |  More General Concepts  |  Related Concepts  |  More Specific Concepts
3,7-Dimethylxanthine. The principle alkaloid in Theobroma cacao (the cacao bean) and other plants. A xanthine alkaloid that is used as a bronchodilator and as a vasodilator. It has a weaker diuretic activity than THEOPHYLLINE and is also a less powerful stimulant of smooth muscle. It has practically no stimulant effect on the central nervous system. It was formerly used as a diuretic and in the treatment of angina pectoris and hypertension. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, pp1318-9)


publications
Timeline   |   Most Recent
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Theobromine" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Theobromine" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2009
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
©2019 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Funded by the NIH/NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program, grant number UL1TR001102, and through institutional support from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.