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Griseofulvin
An antifungal antibiotic. Griseofulvin may be given by mouth in the treatment of tinea infections.
Approved
Investigational
Vet approved
Ursodeoxycholic acid
Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), also known as ursodiol, is a naturally-occurring bile acid that constitutes a minor fraction of the human bile acid pool.[A256272,A256277] UDCA has been used to treat liver disease for decades: its first use in traditional medicine dates back more than a hundred years.[A256267,A256463] UDCA was first characterized...
Approved
Investigational
Matched Description: … also known as ursodiol, is a naturally-occurring bile acid that constitutes a minor fraction of the human …
Chlorzoxazone
A centrally acting central muscle relaxant with sedative properties. It is claimed to inhibit muscle spasm by exerting an effect primarily at the level of the spinal cord and subcortical areas of the brain. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoea, 30th ed, p1202)
Approved
Capsaicin
Capsaicin is most often used as a topical analgesic and exists in many formulations of cream, liquid, and patch preparations of various strengths; however, it may also be found in some dietary supplements. Capsaicin is a naturally-occurring botanical irritant in chili peppers, synthetically derived for pharmaceutical formulations. The most recent...
Approved
Emtricitabine
Emtricitabine is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) indicated for the treatment of HIV infection in adults or combined with tenofovir alafenamide for the prevention of HIV-1 infection in high risk adolescents and adults. Emtricitabine is a cytidine analogue. The drug works by inhibiting HIV reverse transcriptase, preventing transcription of...
Approved
Investigational
Matched Categories: … Human Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor …
Sincalide
Sincalide is a medication given by injection to assist in the diagnosis of gallbladder and pancreas disorders. It is identified as the 8-amino acid C-terminal segment of cholecystokinin and is also known as CCK-8. Naturally occurring cholecystokinin is a gastrointestinal peptide hormone normally essential for stimulating protein and fat digestion...
Approved
Dabrafenib
Dabrafenib mesylate (Tafinlar) is a reversible ATP-competitive kinase inhibitor and targets the MAPK pathway. It was approved on May 29, 2013, for the treatment of melanoma with V600E or V6000K mutation. It was also used for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with the same mutation. In May 2018, Tafinlar (dabrafenib),...
Approved
Investigational
Drometrizole trisiloxane
Drometrizole trisiloxane is a photostable UVA and UVB light filter [A33069, L2780, L2781, L2782, L2783, F81]. The compound is a lipophilic benzotriazole derivative marketed as Meroxyl XL by L'Oreal, although sunscreens with drometrizole trisiloxane are currently only approved for use in the EU, Canada, Australia, and Japan, among other countries....
Approved
Vericiguat
Vericiguat is a direct stimulator of soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) used in the management of systolic heart failure to reduce mortality and hospitalizations. A key component of the NO-sGC-cGMP signaling pathway that helps to regulate the cardiovascular system, sGC enzymes are intracellular enzymes found in vascular smooth muscle cells (amongst...
Approved
Investigational
Azacitidine
Azacitidine is a pyrimidine nucleoside analogue with anti-neoplastic activity. It differs from cytosine by the presence of nitrogen in the C5-position, key in its hypomethylating activity.[A1406,A1413,A1415] Two main mechanisms of action have been proposed for azacitidine. One of them is the induction of cytotoxicity. As an analogue of cytidine, it...
Approved
Investigational
Plecanatide
Plecanatide is a drug approved in January 2017 by the FDA for the treatment of chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC). It should not be used in children less than six years of age, and should be avoided in patients six years to 18 years of age
Approved
Investigational
Matched Iupac: … 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,30,33,36-undecahydroxy-10-[(C-hydroxycarbonimidoyl)methyl]-32-[(1R)-1-hydroxyethyl]-4-methyl-19 …
Estetrol
Naturally or synthetically produced steroid estrogens have a wide range of pharmaceutical uses ranging from hormonal contraception to the treatment of menopausal symptoms. Estetrol (E4) is a native estrogen occurring naturally during pregnancy, but can be synthesized from a plant source and used for contraception. It is more potent and...
Approved
Investigational
Niacin
Niacin is a B vitamin used to treat vitamin deficiencies as well as hyperlipidemia, dyslipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and to reduce the risk of myocardial infarctions.[L7550,L7553,L7556,L7559,L7562,L7565]
Approved
Investigational
Nutraceutical
Papain
Papain, also known as papaya proteinase I, is a cysteine protease (EC 3.4.22.2) enzyme that is found in species of papaya, Carica papaya and Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis. The enzyme is found to be localized in the skin of papaya, and is collected from slashed unripe papayas as a crude latex. Papain...
Approved
Tenecteplase
Tenecteplase is a tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) developed from modifications of natural human tPA complementary DNA (cDNA). It is a 527 amino acid with a substitution of threonine 103 with asparagine and substitution of asparagine 117 with glutamine within the kringle 1 domain, and a tetra-alanine substitution at amino acids...
Approved
Matched Description: … Tenecteplase is a tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) developed from modifications of natural human tPA …
Ascorbic acid
A six carbon compound related to glucose. It is found naturally in citrus fruits and many vegetables. Ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient in human diets, and necessary to maintain connective tissue and bone. Its biologically active form, vitamin C, functions as a reducing agent and coenzyme in several metabolic...
Approved
Nutraceutical
Matched Description: … Ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient in human diets, and necessary to maintain connective tissue and …
Matched Mixtures name: … Se-Natal 19 ... Thrivite 19 ... Se-Natal 19 …
Matched Mixtures name: … Se-Natal 19 ... Thrivite 19 ... Se-Natal 19 …
Tioconazole
Tioconazole is an imidazole antifungal used to treat fungal and yeast infections. Topical formulations are used for ringworm, jock itch, athlete's foot, and tinea versicolor or "sun fungus". Tioconazole interacts with 14-alpha demethylase, a cytochrome P-450 enzyme that converts lanosterol to ergosterol, an essential component of the yeast membrane. In...
Approved
Doxorubicin
Doxorubicin is a cytotoxic anthracycline antibiotic isolated from cultures of Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius along side with daunorubicin, another cytotoxic agent, in 1970.[A1575,A257709,A257614] Although they both have aglyconic and sugar moieties, doxorubicin's side chain terminates with a primary alcohol group compared to the methyl group of daunorubicin. Although its detailed...
Approved
Investigational
Telmisartan
Telmisartan is an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (ARB) used in the management of hypertension. Generally, angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) such as telmisartan bind to the angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptors with high affinity, causing inhibition of the action of angiotensin II on vascular smooth muscle, ultimately leading to...
Approved
Investigational
Avacincaptad pegol
Avacincaptad pegol is an RNA aptamer covalently bound to a branched polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecule. It was developed to treat an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called geographic atrophy (GA). AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in developed countries for people over 50 years old, with...
Approved
Investigational
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...
Approved
Investigational
Withdrawn
Matched Description: … Humanized IgG1 kappa isotype monoclonal antibody that binds to human CD11a. …
Dioxybenzone
Dioxybenzone, or benzophenone-8, is an organic compound derived from DB01878 that is used as a sunscreen agent. It absorbed UV-B and UV-AII rays. Dioxybenzone is an approved sunscreen ingredient in concentrations up to 3% .
Approved
Apalutamide
Apalutamide is a potent androgen receptor (AR) antagonist that selectively binds to the ligand-binding domain of AR and blocks AR nuclear translocation or binding to androgen response elements . It has been used in trials studying the treatment of Prostate Cancer, Hepatic Impairment, Prostatic Neoplasms, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, and Prostatic...
Approved
Investigational
Matched Description: … Unlike bicalutamide, apalutamide antagonized AR-mediated signaling in AR overexpressing human CRPC cell ... In mice bearing human CRPC xenograft models, apalutamide treatment produced tumor regressions in a dose-dependent …
Iptacopan
Iptacopan is a small-molecule factor B inhibitor previously investigated as a potential treatment for the rare blood disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) by inhibiting the complement factor B. Factor B is a positive regulator of the alternative complement pathway, where it activates C3 convertase and subsequently C5 convertase. This is...
Approved
Investigational
Xanthan gum
Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide gum derived from* Xanthomonas campestris* by a pure-culture fermentation process and purified by recovery with isopropyl alcohol. The major constituents include D-glucose, D-mannose, and D-glucuronic acid. Xanthan gum is a direct food additive permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption by the FDA....
Approved
Matched Description: … Xanthan gum is a direct food additive permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption by …
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