Pentobarbital
"Pentobarbital" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A short-acting barbiturate that is effective as a sedative and hypnotic (but not as an anti-anxiety) agent and is usually given orally. It is prescribed more frequently for sleep induction than for sedation but, like similar agents, may lose its effectiveness by the second week of continued administration. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p236)
| Descriptor ID |
D010424
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.253.593
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Morgan JI, Cohen DR, Hempstead JL, Curran T. Mapping patterns of c-fos expression in the central nervous system after seizure. Science. 1987 Jul 10; 237(4811):192-7.