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Muscarinic Agonists

"Muscarinic Agonists" 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.

Drugs that bind to and activate muscarinic cholinergic receptors (RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC). Muscarinic agonists are most commonly used when it is desirable to increase smooth muscle tone, especially in the GI tract, urinary bladder and the eye. They may also be used to reduce heart rate.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscarinic Agonists" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Muscarinic Agonists" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 68 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1997 and 2003
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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.