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Cromolyn Sodium

"Cromolyn Sodium" 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 chromone complex that acts by inhibiting the release of chemical mediators from sensitized mast cells. It is used in the prophylactic treatment of both allergic and exercise-induced asthma, but does not affect an established asthmatic attack.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cromolyn Sodium" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cromolyn Sodium" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1995
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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.