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Tolcapone
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00323ApprovedInvestigationalWithdrawnTolcapone is a drug that inhibits the enzyme catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT). It is used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease as an adjunct to levodopa/carbidopa medication. … It is a yellow, odorless, non-hygroscopic, crystalline compound. Tolcapone is associated with a risk of hepatotoxicity.
Fencamfamin
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01463ApprovedIllicitWithdrawnFencamfamin (Glucoenergan, Reactivan) is a stimulant which was developed in the 1960s as an appetite suppressant. … Fencamfamin is used for treating depressive day-time fatigue, lack of concentration and lethargy. It is especially useful in patients with chronic conditions due to its favourable safety profile.
Fenofibric acid
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB13873ApprovedInvestigationalFenofibric acid is a lipid-lowering agent that is used in severe hypertriglyceridemia, primary hyperlipidemia, and mixed dyslipidemia. … It works to decrease elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, triglycerides, apolipoprotein B, while increasing high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
Rubidium Rb-82
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB09479ApprovedInvestigationalIt is indicated for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of the myocardium under rest or pharmacologic stress conditions to evaluate regional myocardial perfusion in adult patients with suspected … Rubidium chloride Rb-82 injection is a sterile nonpyrogenic solutions of rubidium Rb 82 chloride.
Misoprostol
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00929ApprovedInvestigational[L7616,L7619,A181589,A181583,A181697] The stimulation of prostaglandin receptors in the stomach reduces gastric acid secretion, while stimulating these receptors in the uterus and cervix can increase the … [A181586] Misoprostol was granted FDA approval on 27 December 1988.[L7616]
Warfarin
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00682ApprovedInvestigationalWarfarin does not actually affect blood viscosity, rather, it inhibits vitamin-k dependent synthesis of biologically active forms of various clotting factors in addition to several regulatory factors. … Although originally marketed as a pesticide (d-Con, Rodex, among others), Warfarin has since become the most frequently prescribed oral anticoagulant in North America.
Categories: Compounds used in a research, industrial, or household settingAnisindione
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB01125ApprovedII, VII, IX, and X, as well as the anticoagulant proteins C and S, in the liver. … Its anticoagulant action is mediated through the inhibition of the vitamin K-mediated gamma-carboxylation of precursor proteins that are critical in forming the formation of active procoagulation factors
Inavolisib
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB15275ApprovedInvestigational[L51748,L51738] In February 2025, it was approved by Health Canada for the same indication. [L52605] … _PIK3CA_ is one of the most frequently mutated oncogenes, with the resulting mutated p110α protein it encodes playing a central role in tumor cell proliferation.
Difelikefalin
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB11938ApprovedInvestigationalDifelikefalin (CR845) is an agonist of kappa opioid receptors (KORs) useful in the treatment of pruritus secondary to chronic kidney disease. KORs were first associated with itching in 1984. … [A237615,A237620] The clinical burden of uremic pruritus in this patient population is being increasingly recognized as contributing to a significant reduction in patient quality of life, poor outcomes
Baclofen
go.drugbank.com/drugs/DB00181ApprovedInvestigationalAlthough originally designed in 1962 to treat epilepsy, baclofen was not effective in treating this condition but instead was shown to reduce spasticity in selected patients. … [A245338] Baclofen was reintroduced in 1971 as a treatment for spasticity and was later approved by the FDA in 1977.