Displaying drugs 751 - 775 of 11949 in total
Deflazacort
Deflazacort, also known as Emflaza, is a corticosteroid prodrug used as an agent to manage Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). It is marketed by Marathon Pharmaceuticals and was approved in February 2017 by the FDA.[L6694,FDA label]
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disorder resulting from mutations of the dystrophin gene, which...
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Matched Description: … Deflazacort, also known as Emflaza, is a corticosteroid prodrug used as an agent to manage Duchenne Muscular …
Treprostinil
Treprostinil is a stable tricyclic analogue of prostacyclin that promotes the vasodilation of pulmonary and systemic arterial vascular beds and the inhibition of platelet aggregation.[L41855,L41860,L41865] It reduces symptoms in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease.[L41855,L41860] The first agent approved for the treatment...
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Matched Description: … Treprostinil is a stable tricyclic analogue of prostacyclin[A248770] that promotes the vasodilation of ... [L41855,L41860] The first agent approved for the treatment of PAH was [epoprostenol], a synthetic prostacyclin …
Hexocyclium
Hexocyclium is a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist which was presumably used in the treatment of gastric ulcer or diarrhea. It was once available under the tradename Tral marketed by Abbvie Inc. but has been discontinued. Proton pump inhibitors like DB00338 and opiate anti-diarrheal agents like DB00836 have largely replaced the...
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Matched Description: … Hexocyclium is a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist which was presumably used in the treatment …
Glucagon
Glucagon is a 29 amino acid hormone used as a diagnostic aid in radiologic exams to temporarily inhibit the movement of the gastrointestinal tract and to treat severe hypoglycemia.[L7634,L7637,L7640,L7643,L8519] Glucagon raises blood sugar through activation of hepatic glucagon receptors, stimulating glycogenolysis and the release of glucose.[L7640,L7643]
Glucagon was granted FDA...
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Matched Description: … Glucagon is a 29 amino acid hormone used as a diagnostic aid in radiologic exams to temporarily inhibit …
Efalizumab
Humanized IgG1 kappa isotype monoclonal antibody that binds to human CD11a. Efalizumab has a molecular weight of approximately 150 kilodaltons and is produced in a Chinese hamster ovary mammalian cell expression system in a nutrient medium containing the antibiotic gentamicin. The FDA approved efalizumab in 2003. It was later withdrawn...
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Matched Description: … Efalizumab has a molecular weight of approximately 150 kilodaltons and is produced in a Chinese hamster ... ovary mammalian cell expression system in a nutrient medium containing the antibiotic gentamicin. ... It was later withdrawn in 2009 due to a potential risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy …
Sarecycline
Sarecycline is a semi-synthetic derivative of tetracycline that was initially discovered by Paratek Pharmaceuticals from Boston, MA but then licensed to Warner Chilcott of Rockaway, NJ in July of 2007 . After completing various phase-II and phase-III trials demonstrating its effectiveness in treating moderate to severe facial acne vulgaris [A39993,...
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Matched Description: … s Seysara (sarecylcine) as a new first in class narrow spectrum tetracycline derived oral antibiotic ... Sarecycline is a semi-synthetic derivative of tetracycline that was initially discovered by Paratek Pharmaceuticals ... Medical Dermatology portfolio, before Almirall acquired the portfolio in the second half of 2018 as a …
Cisatracurium
Cisatracurium is a non-depolarising neuromuscular blocking agent of the benzylisoquinolinium class, available in its salt form, cisatracurium besylate.[A243416,A253592] Cisatracurium has an intermediate duration of action and is one of the most commonly used neuromuscular blocking agents in intensive care.[A253592,A253597]. Cisatracurium acts on cholinergic receptors, blocking neuromuscular transmission. This action is...
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Matched Description: … [A243416] Compared to atracurium, cisatracurium produces a lower degree of histamine release. ... Cisatracurium is a non-depolarising neuromuscular blocking agent of the benzylisoquinolinium class, available …
Rufinamide
Rufinamide is a triazole derivative and an anticonvulsant medication to treat seizure disorders like Lennox-Gastuat syndrome, a form of childhood epilepsy. Clinical trials suggest its efficacy in the treatment of partial seizures.
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Matched Description: … Lennox-Gastuat syndrome, a form of childhood epilepsy. ... Rufinamide is a triazole derivative and an anticonvulsant medication to treat seizure disorders like …
Lorazepam
Lorazepam is a short-acting and rapidly cleared benzodiazepine used commonly as a sedative and anxiolytic. It was developed by DJ Richards, presented and marketed initially by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in the USA in 1977. The first historic FDA label approval is reported in 1985 by the company Mutual Pharm.
Approved
Matched Description: … Lorazepam is a short-acting and rapidly cleared benzodiazepine used commonly as a sedative and anxiolytic …
Scorpion (centruroides) immune Fab2 antivenin (equine)
Centruroides (scorpion) Immune F(ab')2 (equine) is a purified preparation of immune globulin F(ab’)2 fragments that are derived from plasma of the horses immunized with venom of C. noxius, C. l. limpidus, C. l. tecomanus, and C. s. suffusus. It is intravenously administered patients with clinical signs of scorpion envenomation so...
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Matched Description: … This drug is a polyvalent antivenin proven to be useful against scorpion stings. ... Centruroides (scorpion) Immune F(ab')2 (equine) is a purified preparation of immune globulin F(ab’)2 ... Envenomation by a scorpion sting can result in serious cardiovascular effects [A32483]. …
Ketorolac
Ketorolac is a Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and is commercially available as an oral tablet, injectable, nasal spray and as an ophthalmic solution. It's analgesic properties make it a useful pain management tool across many settings including postoperative pain, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, menstrual disorders, headaches, spinal and soft tissue pain,...
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Matched Description: … it a useful opioid sparing agent. ... Ketorolac is a Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and is commercially available as an oral ... [L6358][L6508][L11055][L3674][L11070]
It's analgesic properties make it a useful pain management …
Novobiocin
Novobiocin is an antibiotic compound derived from Streptomyces niveus. It has a chemical structure similar to coumarin. Novobiocin binds to DNA gyrase and blocks adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity. (From Reynolds, Martindale The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p189)
Novobiocin sodium, a salt form of novobiocin, was initially approved in September 1964...
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Vet approved
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Matched Description: … It has a chemical structure similar to coumarin. ... (From Reynolds, Martindale The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p189)
Novobiocin sodium, a salt form …
Lidoflazine
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Experimental
Glutethimide
Glutethimide is a hypnotic and sedative. Its use has been largely superseded by other drugs.
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Illicit
Matched Description: … Glutethimide is a hypnotic and sedative. Its use has been largely superseded by other drugs. …
Formoterol
Formoterol is an inhaled beta2-agonist used in the management of COPD and asthma that was first approved for use in the United States in 2001. It acts on bronchial smooth muscle to dilate and relax airways, and is administered as a racemic mixture of its active (R;R)- and inactive (S;S)-enantiomers....
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Matched Description: … [L10986] It acts on bronchial smooth muscle to dilate and relax airways, and is administered as a racemic ... [A189528] A major clinical advantage of formoterol over other inhaled beta-agonists is its rapid onset ... of action (2-3 minutes), which is at least as fast as [salbutamol], combined with a long duration of …
SARS-CoV-2 virus recombinant spike (S) protein receptor binding domain (RBD) fusion heterodimer (B.1.351-B.1.1.7 strains)
Bimervax is an adjuvanted non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine utilizing a SARS-CoV-2 recombinant spike (S) protein receptor binding domain (RBD) fusion heterodimer. It is intended to elicit protection against Omicron XBB.1.5, one of the dominant circulating SARS-CoV-2 subvariants in 2023. It is produced using recombinant DNA technology in CHO cell lines and...
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Matched Description: … Bimervax is an adjuvanted non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine utilizing a SARS-CoV-2 recombinant spike (S) protein ... [L48902,L48907]
Bimervax was issued marketing authorization in the EU in March 2023 for use as a booster …
Interferon alfa-n1
Interferon alfa-n1 consists of purified, natural (n is for natural) alpha interferon subtypes, at least two of which are glycosylated. This differs from recombinant alpha interferons, which are individual non-glycosylated proteins produced from individual alpha interferon genes.
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Taliglucerase alfa
Taliglucerase alfa is the recombinant active form of the human lysosomal enzyme, β-glucocerebrosidase. It was approved in 2012 and is marketed under the name Elelyso for use in patients with type 1 Gaucher's disease.
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Investigational
Chymopapain
Chymopapain was first isolated in 1941 from the crude latex derived from the fruit of Carica papaya by squeezing the green papaya while on the plant prior to harvest. It is an extracellular plant cysteine proteinase similar to papain in specificity. Chymopapain was developed by Chart Medcl and FDA approved...
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Sulconazole
Sulconazole, brand name Exelderm, is a broad-spectrum anti-fungal agent available as a topical cream and solution. Sulconazole nitrate, the active ingredient, is an imidazole derivative that inhibits the growth of common pathogenic dermatophytes, making it an effective treatment for tinea cruris and tinea corporis infections.[L44592,L44597] Sulconazole appears to be effective...
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Matched Description: … Sulconazole, brand name Exelderm, is a broad-spectrum anti-fungal agent available as a topical cream …
Brexucabtagene autoleucel
Mantle cell lymphoma is a heterogeneous sub-category of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that can be classified as either an aggressive nodal or an indolent leukemic non-nodal variant. Despite the introduction of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors such as ibrutinib and acalabrutinib, the prognosis for MCL patients remains poor and those that relapse...
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Matched Description: … Mantle cell lymphoma is a heterogeneous sub-category of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that can be classified ... More recently, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have been developed that modify a ... [A216188] Similar to [axicabtagene ciloleucel], brexucabtagene autoleucel employs a murine anti-CD19 …
Delandistrogene moxeparvovec
Delandistrogene moxeparvovec is an adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy developed by Sarepta Therapeutics. It was granted accelerated approval by the FDA on June 22, 2023, as the first gene therapy to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). DMD is an X-linked genetic disorder characterized by mutations in the dystrophin gene, leading...
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Matched Description: … Microdystrophin is a truncated, functional form of dystrophin.[A260256, L47021] ... ] DMD is an X-linked genetic disorder characterized by mutations in the dystrophin gene, leading to a ... serotype rh74 (AAVrh74) based vector containing the microdystrophin transgene under the control of a …
Fenoprofen
An anti-inflammatory analgesic and antipyretic highly bound to plasma proteins. It is pharmacologically similar to aspirin, but causes less gastrointestinal bleeding.
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Eflornithine
Eflornithine is an irreversible ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor originally developed as a treatment for human African trypanosomiasis. Further research has also implicated ornithine decarboxylase in other conditions like facial hirsutism and cancer, especially when ornithine decarboxylase is highly upregulated in tumor cells.[A4112, A262834] Additionally, ornithine decarboxylase is activated by c-myc or...
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Matched Description: … study of children with high-risk neuroblastoma, where a 52% reduction in the risk of relapse and a 68% ... Eflornithine is an irreversible ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor originally developed as a treatment ... both very well-known oncogenes, thus increasing the interest in targeting ornithine carboxylase as a …
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