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MeSH Heading: Heparin
Tree Number(s): D09.698.373.400
Unique ID: D006493
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006493
Scope Note: A highly acidic mucopolysaccharide formed of equal parts of sulfated D-glucosamine and D-glucuronic acid with sulfaminic bridges. The molecular weight ranges from six to twenty thousand. Heparin occurs in and is obtained from liver, lung, mast cells, etc., of vertebrates. Its function is unknown, but it is used to prevent blood clotting in vivo and vitro, in the form of many different salts.
Entry Term(s): Heparin Sodium; Heparinic Acid; Liquaemin; Sodium Heparin; Unfractionated Heparin; alpha-Heparin
Pharm Action: Anticoagulants
Fibrinolytic Agents
Registry Number: 9005-49-6
NLM Classification #: QV 193
Public MeSH Note: /therapeutic use was HEPARIN, THERAPEUTIC 1965
History Note: /therapeutic use was HEPARIN, THERAPEUTIC 1965
Entry Combination: antagonists & inhibitors:Heparin Antagonists
Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25

Entry Combination: antagonists & inhibitors:Heparin Antagonists
Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage (AD)

adverse effects (AE)

agonists (AG)

analogs & derivatives (AA)

analysis (AN)

biosynthesis (BI)

blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemical synthesis (CS)

chemistry (CH)

classification (CL)

deficiency (DF)

economics (EC)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

isolation & purification (IP)

metabolism (ME)

pharmacokinetics (PK)

pharmacology (PD)

physiology (PH)

poisoning (PO)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

supply & distribution (SD)

therapeutic use (TU)

toxicity (TO)

ultrastructure (UL)

urine (UR)

Concept UI: M0010187
Registry Number: 9005-49-6
Scope Note: A highly acidic mucopolysaccharide formed of equal parts of sulfated D-glucosamine and D-glucuronic acid with sulfaminic bridges. The molecular weight ranges from six to twenty thousand. Heparin occurs in and is obtained from liver, lung, mast cells, etc., of vertebrates. Its function is unknown, but it is used to prevent blood clotting in vivo and vitro, in the form of many different salts.
Terms: Heparin Preferred Term
Term UI T019581
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID BAN (19XX); Unfractionated Heparin
Term UI T761741
Date12/01/2009
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2011); Heparinic Acid
Term UI T019582
Date05/23/1980
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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