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Protective Agents

"Protective Agents" 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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Synthetic or natural substances which are given to prevent a disease or disorder or are used in the process of treating a disease or injury due to a poisonous agent.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Protective Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Protective Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2004 and 2009 and 2014 and 2015 and 2019
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