Benzodiazepines: Their Use either as Essential Medicines or as Toxics Substances

This review highlights the nature, characteristics, properties, pharmacological differences between different types of benzodiazepines, the mechanism of action in the central nervous system, and the degradation of benzodiazepines. In the end, the efforts to reduce the benzodiazepines’ adverse effect...

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Autores principales: Sanabria, Edilma, Cuenca, Ronald Edgardo, Esteso, Miguel Ángel, Maldonado, Mauricio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7912725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33535485
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9020025
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spelling pubmed-79127252021-02-28 Benzodiazepines: Their Use either as Essential Medicines or as Toxics Substances Sanabria, Edilma Cuenca, Ronald Edgardo Esteso, Miguel Ángel Maldonado, Mauricio Toxics Review This review highlights the nature, characteristics, properties, pharmacological differences between different types of benzodiazepines, the mechanism of action in the central nervous system, and the degradation of benzodiazepines. In the end, the efforts to reduce the benzodiazepines’ adverse effects are shown and a reflection is made on the responsible uses of these medications. MDPI 2021-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7912725/ /pubmed/33535485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9020025 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Benzodiazepines: Their Use either as Essential Medicines or as Toxics Substances
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title_short Benzodiazepines: Their Use either as Essential Medicines or as Toxics Substances
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7912725/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9020025
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