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Descriptor English: Photosensitizing Agents
Descriptor Spanish: Fármacos Fotosensibilizantes
Descriptor fármacos fotosensibilizantes
Entry term(s) agente fotosensibilizante
agentes fotosensibilizantes
efecto fotosensibilizante
efectos fotosensibilizantes
fotosensibilizador
fotosensibilizadores
fotosensibilizante
fotosensibilizantes
Scope note: Fármacos que son farmacológicamente inactivos pero que cuando se exponen a las radiaciones ultravioleta o a la luz solar se convierten en su metabolito activo, dando lugar a una reacción que beneficia al tejido afectado. Estos compuestos pueden administrarse por vía tópica o general y se han utilizado para tratar la psoriasis y diversos tipos de neoplasias.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fármacos Fotossensibilizantes
Descriptor French: Photosensibilisants
Entry term(s): Agents, Photosensitizing
Effect, Photosensitizing
Effects, Photosensitizing
Photosensitizer
Photosensitizers
Photosensitizing Agent
Photosensitizing Effect
Photosensitizing Effects
Tree number(s): D27.505.954.444.600
D27.505.954.600.710
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017319
Scope note: Drugs that are pharmacologically inactive but when exposed to ultraviolet radiation or sunlight are converted to their active metabolite to produce a beneficial reaction affecting the diseased tissue. These compounds can be administered topically or systemically and have been used therapeutically to treat psoriasis and various types of neoplasms.
Annotation: note entry term PHOTOSENSITIZING EFFECT: use only for the photosensitizing effect of a chemical substance
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
Related: Hematoporphyrin Photoradiation MeSH
PUVA Therapy MeSH
Photochemotherapy MeSH
DeCS ID: 30619
Unique ID: D017319
NLM Classification: QV 60
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Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Photosensitizing Agents - Preferred
Concept UI M0026299
Scope note Drugs that are pharmacologically inactive but when exposed to ultraviolet radiation or sunlight are converted to their active metabolite to produce a beneficial reaction affecting the diseased tissue. These compounds can be administered topically or systemically and have been used therapeutically to treat psoriasis and various types of neoplasms.
Preferred term Photosensitizing Agents
Entry term(s) Agents, Photosensitizing
Photosensitizer
Photosensitizers
Photosensitizing Agent
Photosensitizing Effect - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0556259
Preferred term Photosensitizing Effect
Entry term(s) Effect, Photosensitizing
Effects, Photosensitizing
Photosensitizing Effects



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