"Drug Implants" 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.
Small containers or pellets of a solid drug implanted in the body to achieve sustained release of the drug.
| Descriptor ID |
D004343
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.255.210.315
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Implants" by people in Profiles.
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Moran DM, Koniaris LG, Jablonski EM, Cahill PA, Halberstadt CR, McKillop IH. Microencapsulation of engineered cells to deliver sustained high circulating levels of interleukin-6 to study hepatocellular carcinoma progression. Cell Transplant. 2006; 15(8-9):785-98.
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Van Bockstaele EJ, Peoples J, Menko AS, McHugh K, Drolet G. Decreases in endogenous opioid peptides in the rat medullo-coerulear pathway after chronic morphine treatment. J Neurosci. 2000 Dec 1; 20(23):8659-66.