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  1. Drug

    Colesevelam

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    ApprovedInvestigational

    It works by binding bile acids in the intestine. Bile acids are made when cholesterol is broken down in the body. Removing these bile acids helps to lower blood cholesterol. … Colesevelam is used with exercise and diet changes (restriction of cholesterol and fat intake) to reduce the amount of cholesterol and certain fatty substances in the blood.

  2. Drug

    Urokinase

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    ApprovedInvestigationalWithdrawn

    Urokinase is an endogenous peptide that is cleaved in the presence of plasmin between lysine 158 and isoleucine 159 to yield active urokinase. … [A191943] Urokinase remains connected between these 2 chains by a sulfhydryl bond.[A191943] Urokinase was granted FDA approval on 16 January 1978.[L12138]

    Synonyms: Two-chain urokinase
  3. Drug

    Danaparoid

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    ApprovedWithdrawn

    While it was initially approved by the FDA as Orgaran™, danaparoid was withdrawn by Organon International on August 14, 2002, due to a shortage in drug substance by the manufacturer. … Danaparoid possesses a potent antithrombic activity that works by inhibiting activated factor X (Factor Xa) and activated factor II (Factor IIa).

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    Tolevamer

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    Approved

    Sodium polystyrene sulfonate is a medication used to treat abnormally high potassium levels. … It may be taken orally or by rectum, as an enema, and functions as a potassium-binding resin in the intestines.

  5. Drug

    Tetradecyl hydrogen sulfate (ester)

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    Approved

    Sodium tetradecyl sulfate is an anionic surface-active agent which is used for its wetting properties in the industry and is also used in medicine as a blood vessel irritant and sclerosing agent for hemorrhoids and varicose veins . Sodiu...

  6. Drug

    Eftrenonacog alfa

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    Approved

    It is an X-linked genetic disease caused by mutation of the gene for coagulation protein factor IX (FIX), leading to decreased levels of endogenous factor IX and increased susceptibility to recurrent bleeding … Eftrenonacog alfa was developed and marketed as Alprolix for intravenous injection by Biogen. It was first approved by the FDA in March 2014 and later approved by the EMA in May 2016.

  7. Drug

    Medrogestone

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    ApprovedWithdrawn

    [A31526] It was developed by Ayerst, approved in Canada in 1969 and its current status is cancelled post-marketing.[L1118] It was never approved by the FDA.

  8. Drug

    Fosphenytoin

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    ApprovedInvestigational

    It works by slowing down impulses in the brain that cause seizures. … Its main mechanism is to block frequency-dependent, use-dependent and voltage-dependent neuronal sodium channels, and therefore limit repetitive firing of action potentials.

  9. Drug

    Ceritinib

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    ApprovedInvestigational

    Ceritinib exerts its therapeutic effect by inhibiting autophosphorylation of ALK, ALK-mediated phosphorylation of the downstream signaling protein STAT3, and proliferation of ALK-dependent cancer cells … This occurrence led to development of novel second-generation ALK inhibitors such as ceritinib to overcome crizotinib resistance.

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    Natamycin

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    ApprovedInvestigational

    Amphoteric macrolide antifungal antibiotic from Streptomyces natalensis or S. chattanoogensis. It is used for a variety of fungal infections, mainly topically. [PubChem]