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Prednisone

"Prednisone" 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.

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A synthetic anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid derived from CORTISONE. It is biologically inert and converted to PREDNISOLONE in the liver.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Prednisone" by people in this website by year, and whether "Prednisone" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 148 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 1998
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