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Selenium Sulfide

Selenium Sulfide is an antifungal agent as well as a cytostatic agent, slowing the growth of hyperproliferative cells in seborrhea. … Selenium Sulfide is the active ingredient often used in shampoos for the treatment of dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis and tinea capitis, a fungal infection that is primarily a disease of preadolescent

Vilazodone

Vilazodone was given FDA approval on January 21, 2011[L6046,A177622]. … Vilazodone is a novel compound with combined high affinity and selectivity for the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) transporter and 5-HT(1A) receptors[Label,A177622].

Oliceridine

[A218026, A218031] By acting as a biased agonist, oliceridine provides comparable analgesia compared with traditional opioids such as [morphine] at a comparable or decreased risk of opioid-related adverse … Severe acute pain occurs through nociceptive signalling involving both ascending and descending spinal pathways, in which nerve conductance is mediated in part by the action of opioid receptors.

Drotrecogin alfa

Drotrecogin alfa was withdrawn from the market after a major study indicated that it was not effective in improving outcomes in patients with sepsis. … It is a glycoprotein of approximately 55 kilodalton molecular weight, consisting of a heavy chain and a light chain linked by a disulfide bond.

Belumosudil

[L34749] In the treatment of GVHD, a condition in which donor T-cells begin to attack recipient tissues following allogeneic hematopoeitic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), belumosudil helps to resolve … [L34754] In July 2022, Belumosudil was approved by Health Canada under the brand name RHOLISTIQ to treat the same condition in adult and pediatric patients 12 years or older.[L42925]

Alcloxa

Methacholine

Asthma is a complex condition associated with phenomena such as airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), in which the smooth muscle in the airways (ASM) excessively contracts in response to stimuli, reducing … [L31763] In patients with AHR, a lower dose of methacholine is required to induce bronchoconstriction, which forms the basis for the methacholine challenge test to diagnose AHR.

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin is an immune modulator, given as a vaccine to help the body respond to cancer. A natural protein isolated from the marine mollusc keyhole limpet. … Keyhole limpet hemocyanin is an immunogenic carrier protein that, in vivo, increases antigenic immune responses to haptens and other weak antigens such as idiotype proteins.

Idecabtagene vicleucel

[A232563] Multiple myeloma is typically treated with an immunomodulatory agent like [lenalidomide],[A232593] a proteasome inhibitor like [bortezomib], or an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody like [isatuximab … [A232558,A232563,L32858] These therapies involve extracting and genetically manipulating T-cells from a patient to express a CAR for a tumor specific antigen.

Acitretin

An oral retinoid effective in the treatment of psoriasis. It is the major metabolite of etretinate with the advantage of a much shorter half-life when compared with etretinate.