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Desipramine

"Desipramine" 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 tricyclic dibenzazepine compound that potentiates neurotransmission. Desipramine selectively blocks reuptake of norepinephrine from the neural synapse, and also appears to impair serotonin transport. This compound also possesses minor anticholinergic activity, through its affinity to muscarinic receptors.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Desipramine" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Desipramine" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 57 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2004
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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.