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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.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition 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.

Histamine Agents Medical Definitions and Terms

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