Histamine Agents
| Medical Definition: |
Drugs used for their actions on histaminergic systems. Included are drugs that act at histamine receptors, affect the life cycle of histamine, or affect the state of histaminergic cells. |
| Guide Notes: |
GEN or unspecified; prefer specific groups or specific drugs |
| Previously Indexed: |
Histamine/pharmacology (1966-1994) |
Histamine Agents Categories.
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Histamine Agonists - Drugs that bind to and activate histamine receptors. Although they have been suggested for a variety of clinical applications histamine agonists have so far been more widely used in research than therapeutically. |
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Histamine Antagonists - Drugs that bind to but do not activate histamine receptors, thereby blocking the actions of histamine or histamine agonists. Classical antihistaminics block the histamine H1 receptors only. |
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