First Header Logo Second Header Logo

Pentazocine

"Pentazocine" 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.

expand / collapse MeSH information
The first mixed agonist-antagonist analgesic to be marketed. It is an agonist at the kappa and sigma opioid receptors and has a weak antagonist action at the mu receptor. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1991, p97)


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pentazocine" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pentazocine" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
_