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Propofol

"Propofol" 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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An intravenous anesthetic agent which has the advantage of a very rapid onset after infusion or bolus injection plus a very short recovery period of a couple of minutes. (From Smith and Reynard, Textbook of Pharmacology, 1992, 1st ed, p206). Propofol has been used as ANTICONVULSANTS and ANTIEMETICS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Propofol" by people in this website by year, and whether "Propofol" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 44 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2001 and 2008 and 2013
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