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Amyl Nitrite
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01612ApprovedIts use as a prescription medicine comes from its ability to lower blood pressure. As an inhalant, it also has psychoactive effect which has led to illegal drug use. … Amyl Nitrite is an antihypertensive medicine. Amyl nitrite is employed medically to treat heart diseases such as angina and to treat cyanide poisoning.
Albiglutide
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB09043ApprovedInvestigationalWithdrawnIt is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4-resistant glucagon-like peptide-1 dimer fused to human albumin. Albiglutide was approved on April 15, 2014 by the FDA. … Albiglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist (GLP-1) biologic drug indicated in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. It is marketed under the brands Eperzan and Tanzeum by GSK (GlaxoSmithKline).
Desflurane
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01189ApprovedInvestigationalDesflurane, or I-653, a a volatile anesthetic that is more rapidly cleared and less metabolized than previous inhaled anesthetics such as [methoxyflurane], [sevoflurane], [enflurane], or [isoflurane]. … It was developed in the late 1980s out of a need for a more rapidly acting and rapidly cleared inhaled anesthetic.[A226883,A226888] Desflurane was granted FDA approval on 18 September 1992.[L30285]
Perflutren
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00556ApprovedInvestigationalThe difference in density between the gas-filled bubbles and the blood around them creates an increased level of contrast visible in the resulting ultrasound image. … Perflutren, a diagnostic drug that is intended to be used for contrast enhancement during the indicated echocardiographic procedures, is comprised of lipid-coated microspheres filled with octafluoropropane
Mixtures: Optison Perflutren Protein-Type A MicrospheresCategories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingOsilodrostat
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11837ApprovedInvestigational[A191910] As an orally bioavailable drug therapy, osilodrostat provides a novel treatment option for patients in whom removal of the causative tumor is not an option or for whom previous pituitary surgery … Osilodrostat is an inhibitor of 11β-hydroxylase (also referred to as CYP11B1), the enzyme that catalyzes the final step in the biosynthesis of endogenous cortisol.
Trastuzumab
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00072ApprovedInvestigational[L14015] It is used as a treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2+ metastatic breast cancer, where there is a proven amplification of the HER-2 oncogene or over-expression of the HER … It displays biosimilar properties as Herceptin according to clinical data.
Ertugliflozin
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11827ApprovedInvestigationalErtugliflozin is a sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor used to treat type II diabetes mellitus. It works to block glucose reabsorption from the glomerulus. … [A261951, L1132] It was also approved by the European Commission in March 2018.[L48621]
Exagamglogene autotemcel
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB15572ApprovedInvestigational[L10139] Following engraftment, it causes an increase in the production of HbF and a subsequent decrease in HbS. … mainstay of treatment since the 1990s - as well as newer agents like [crizanlizumab] and [voxelotor].
Synonyms: from mobilised peripheral blood by positive selection, modified by CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9) mediated gene editing consisting of aDiatrizoate
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00271ApprovedVet approvedA commonly used x-ray contrast medium. As diatrizoate meglumine and as Diatrizoate sodium, it is used for gastrointestinal studies, angiography, and urography.
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingFenofibric acid
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB13873ApprovedInvestigationalFenofibric acid is a lipid-lowering agent that is used in severe hypertriglyceridemia, primary hyperlipidemia, and mixed dyslipidemia. … [A32038,L12855] Due to its high hydrophilicity and poor absorption profile,[A32038] prodrug ,[fenofibrate], and other conjugated compounds of fenofibric acid, such as choline fenofibrate, have been developed