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Demeclocycline
A tetracycline analog having a 7-chloro and a 6-methyl. Because it is excreted more slowly than tetracycline, it maintains effective blood levels for longer periods of time.
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Matched Description: … A tetracycline analog having a 7-chloro and a 6-methyl. …
Artemisia californica pollen
Artemisia californica pollen is the pollen of the Artemisia californica plant. Artemisia californica pollen is mainly used in allergenic testing.
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Calcium glubionate anhydrous
Calcium glubionate (or glubionate calcium) is a mineral supplement to prevent or treat low blood calcium levels in people who do not get enough calcium from their diets.
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Matched Description: … Calcium glubionate (or glubionate calcium) is a mineral supplement to prevent or treat low blood calcium …
Pindolol
Pindolol is a first generation non-selective beta blocker used in the treatment of hypertension. Early research into the use of pindolol found it had chronotropic effects, and so further investigation focused on the treatment of arrhythmia. Research into pindolol's use in the treatment of hypertension began in the early 1970s....
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Investigational
Matched Description: … Pindolol is a first generation non-selective beta blocker used in the treatment of hypertension. …
Raloxifene
Raloxifene is a second generation selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) that mediates anti-estrogenic effects on breast and uterine tissues, and estrogenic effects on bone, lipid metabolism, and blood coagulation.[A4979,T28] Exhibiting tissue-specific effects distinct from estradiol, raloxifene is the first of the benzothiophene group of antiestrogens to be labelled a SERM....
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Matched Description: … Raloxifene is a second generation selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) that mediates anti-estrogenic ... from [estradiol], raloxifene is the first of the benzothiophene group of antiestrogens to be labelled a ... However, it has a negligible effect on altering the development and progression of breast cancer itself …
Lemborexant
Lemborexant is a novel dual orexin receptor antagonist used in the treatment of insomnia characterized by difficulties with sleep onset and/or sleep maintenance. Recent research in the field of sleep disorders has revealed that insomnia is likely driven not by the inability of the brain to "switch on" sleep-related circuits,...
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Matched Description: … Lemborexant is a novel dual orexin receptor antagonist used in the treatment of insomnia characterized ... This novel mechanism of action offers potential advantages over classic hypnotic agents, including a ... favorable adverse effect profile and potentially greater efficacy, and may signal the beginning of a …
Cimetidine
A histamine congener, it competitively inhibits histamine binding to histamine H2 receptors. Cimetidine has a range of pharmacological actions. It inhibits gastric acid secretion, as well as pepsin and gastrins output. It also blocks the activity of cytochrome P-450 which might explain proposals for use in neoadjuvant therapy.
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Matched Description: … Cimetidine has a range of pharmacological actions. ... A histamine congener, it competitively inhibits histamine binding to histamine H2 receptors. …
Cefmetazole
A semisynthetic cephamycin antibiotic with a broad spectrum of activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms. It has a high rate of efficacy in many types of infection and to date no severe side effects have been noted.
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Matched Description: … A semisynthetic cephamycin antibiotic with a broad spectrum of activity against both gram-positive and ... It has a high rate of efficacy in many types of infection and to date no severe side effects have been …
Tropisetron
Tropisetron is an indole derivative with antiemetic activity. As a selective serotonin receptor antagonist, tropisetron competitively blocks the action of serotonin at 5HT3 receptors, resulting in suppression of chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
Tropisetron appears to be well tolerated with the most frequently reported adverse effect being headache. Extrapyramidal...
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Matched Description: … As a selective serotonin receptor antagonist, tropisetron competitively blocks the action of serotonin …
Sulfasalazine
Sulfasalazine is an anti-inflammatory drug structurally related to salicylates and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. It is indicated for managing inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).[L39065, A255582] Metabolized by intestinal bacteria, sulfasalazine is broken down into mesalazine and sulfapyridine, 2 compounds that carry out the main pharmacological...
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Methylphenobarbital
A barbiturate that is metabolized to phenobarbital. It has been used for similar purposes, especially in epilepsy, but there is no evidence mephobarbital offers any advantage over phenobarbital.
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Matched Description: … A barbiturate that is metabolized to phenobarbital. …
Teicoplanin
Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic consisting of a mixture of several compounds, five major (named teicoplanin A2-1 through A2-5) and four minor (named teicoplanin RS-1 through RS-4). All teicoplanins share a same glycopeptide core, teicoplanin A3-1, but differ in the length and conformation of side chains attached to their β-D-glucosamine...
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Matched Description: … Teicoplanin is a glycopeptide antibiotic consisting of a mixture of several compounds, five major (named ... All teicoplanins share a same glycopeptide core, teicoplanin A3-1, but differ in the length and conformation …
Melphalan flufenamide
Melphalan flufenamide, also known as melflufen or J1, is a prodrug of melphalan.[A230123,L32173] Melphalan flufenamide is more readily uptaken by cells than melphalan, and is cleaved to the active metabolite by aminopeptidases. In vitro models show that melphalan is 10 to hundreds of times more potent than melphalan. The increased...
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Matched Description: … Melphalan flufenamide, also known as melflufen or J1, is a prodrug of [melphalan]. ... [A230123] The increased potency makes melphalan flufenamide a treatment option for patients with relapsed ... It has since been withdrawn from the market in the wake of the phase 3 OCEAN trial which showed a decrease …
Miglustat
Miglustat, commonly marketed under the trade name Zavesca, is a drug used to treat Gaucher disease. It inhibits the enzyme glucosylceramide synthase, an essential enzyme for the synthesis of most glycosphingolipids. It is only used for patients who cannot be treated with enzyme replacement therapy with imiglucerase. Miglustat is now...
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Matched Description: … Miglustat, commonly marketed under the trade name Zavesca, is a drug used to treat Gaucher disease. ... with miglustat showed that therapeutic levels of the drug could not be achieved in patients without a …
Tiagabine
Tiagabine is an anti-convulsive medication. It is also used in the treatment for panic disorder as are a few other anticonvulsants. Though the exact mechanism by which tiagabine exerts its effect on the human body is unknown, it does appear to operate as a selective GABA reuptake inhibitor.
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Matched Description: … It is also used in the treatment for panic disorder as are a few other anticonvulsants. ... mechanism by which tiagabine exerts its effect on the human body is unknown, it does appear to operate as a …
Cabotegravir
Cabotegravir, or GSK1265744, is an HIV-1 integrase inhibitor that is prescribed with the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, rilpivirine.[A227668,L31188,L31193] Early research into cabotegravir showed it had lower oral bioavailability than dolutegravir, which resulted in the development of long acting monthly intramuscular injection formulation for cabotegravir.[A227668,L31193]
Cabotegravir was granted FDA approval on...
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Midodrine
An ethanolamine derivative that is an adrenergic alpha agonist. It is used as a vasoconstrictor agent in the treatment of hypotension.
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Matched Description: … It is used as a vasoconstrictor agent in the treatment of hypotension. …
Ipecac
Ipecac is obtained from the plant Cephaelis ipecacuanha and contains a number of emetic alkaloids including emetine and cephaeline. Ipecac was approved by Health Canada as an OTC but all those products are now discontinued. The FDA does not have currently any approved product containing ipecac, however, ipecac as an...
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Matched Description: … Ipecac is obtained from the plant _Cephaelis ipecacuanha_ and contains a number of emetic alkaloids including …
Atriplex confertifolia pollen
Atriplex confertifolia pollen is the pollen of the Atriplex confertifolia plant. Atriplex confertifolia pollen is mainly used in allergenic testing.
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Cetuximab
Cetuximab is a recombinant chimeric human/mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody that competitively binds to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and competitively inhibits the binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF). EGFR is a member of the ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases found in both normal and tumour cells; it is responsible...
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Matched Description: … Cetuximab is a recombinant chimeric human/mouse IgG1 monoclonal antibody that competitively binds to ... [A227963] EGFR is often mutated in certain types of cancer and serves as a driver of tumorigenesis. ... [A227973] EGFR is a member of the ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases found in both normal and tumour …
Nintedanib
Nintedanib is a small molecule kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease, and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).[L8453,L8459] It was first approved for use in the United States in 2014. Within the spectrum of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment options, nintedanib is currently one...
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Matched Description: … Nintedanib is a small molecule kinase inhibitor used in the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis, systemic ... [A185237] As a chemotherapeutic agent for NSCLC, nintedanib, in combination with [Docetaxel], is reserved ... therapies available and indicated for the condition (the other being [Pirfenidone]) and as such is used as a …
Magnesium acetate tetrahydrate
Magnesium acetate tetrahydrate is a hydrated form of anhydrous magnesium acetate salt with the chemical formula of Mg(CH3COO)2 • 4H2O. As a salt form of magnesium, magnesium acetate is one of the bioavailable forms of magnesium and forms a very water soluble compound. Magnesium is an essential element and second...
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Matched Description: … a very water soluble compound. ... Magnesium acetate tetrahydrate is a hydrated form of anhydrous magnesium acetate salt with the chemical ... As a salt form of magnesium, magnesium acetate is one of the bioavailable forms of magnesium and forms …
Fexinidazole
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 year in endemic areas) despite focussed control efforts. Transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, HAT is biphasic with a first...
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Matched Description: … referred to as sleeping sickness), caused by _T. brucei gambiense_ and _T. brucei rhodesiense_, remains a ... Transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly, HAT is biphasic with a first (hemolymphatic) stage ... [A237555, A237560]
Fexinidazole received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA …
Methadone
Methadone is a potent synthetic analgesic that works as a full µ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist. As a full MOR agonist, methadone mimics the natural effects of the body's opioids, endorphins, and enkephalins through the release of neurotransmitters involved in pain transmission. It also has a...
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Matched Description: … , and a long duration of action. ... Methadone is a potent synthetic analgesic that works as a full µ-opioid receptor (MOR) agonist and N-methyl-d-aspartate ... However, it also has a unique pharmacokinetic profile. …
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