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Potassium hydroxide

Potassium hydroxide is also a precursor to other potassium compounds. Potassium hydroxide is used in food to adjust pH, as a stabilizer, and as a thickening agent. … Potassium hydroxide, also known as _lye_ is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula _KOH_.

Fexinidazole

Transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, HAT is biphasic with a first (hemolymphatic) stage that progresses to a second (meningoencephalitic) stage in which patients experience progressively … Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, also colloquially referred to as sleeping sickness), caused by _T. brucei gambiense_ and _T. brucei rhodesiense_, remains a moderate risk (>1/10,000 inhabitants per

Niclosamide

Niclosamide is an antihelminthic used for the treatment of tapeworm infections. … Helminths (worms) are multicellular organisms that infect very large numbers of humans and cause a broad range of diseases.

DL-alpha tocopheryl acetate

Rilpivirine

[A31328] It is a diarylpyrimidine derivative. … [A31329] The internal conformational flexibility of rilpivirine and the plasticity of it interacting binding site gives it a very high potency and reduces the chance of resistance compared to other NNRTI's

Nafamostat

The use of nafamostat in Asian countries is approved as an anticoagulant therapy for patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy due to acute kidney injury. … Nafamostat is a synthetic serine protease inhibitor that is commonly formulated with hydrochloric acid due to its basic properties.

Degarelix

Chemically, it is a synthetic linear decapeptide amide with seven unnatural amino acids, five of which are D-amino acids. FDA approved on December 24, 2008. … Degarelix is a synthetic peptide derivative drug which binds to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptors in the pituitary gland and blocks interaction with GnRH.

Isoleucine

An essential branched-chain aliphatic amino acid found in many proteins. It is an isomer of leucine. It is important in hemoglobin synthesis and regulation of blood sugar and energy levels.

Thiosulfuric acid

[A252827] Sodium thiosulfate is rapidly degraded in the stomach; therefore, it is normally administered through other routes, such as intravenous or topical. … Sodium thiosulfate is part of the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, and it has a variety of industrial uses, including food preservative, water de-chlorinator and paper pulp bleaching

Viomycin

Viomycin is a tuberactinomycin antibiotic that was used to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis until it was replaced by the less toxic capreomycin.