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Chelation Therapy

"Chelation Therapy" 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.

Therapy of heavy metal poisoning using agents which sequester the metal from organs or tissues and bind it firmly within the ring structure of a new compound which can be eliminated from the body.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chelation Therapy" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Chelation Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 47 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2010 and 2015
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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.