List of articles in "Drug" category - Page 344

Bedaquiline (trade name Sirturo code names TMC207 and R207910) is a diarylquinoline anti-tuberculosis drug which was discovered by a team led by Koen Andries at Janssen Pharmaceutica. When it was […]

Medicinal liquid paraffin also known as paraffinum liquidum is a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and for medical purposes. This is a UK definition (British Pharmacopoeia) and […]

AM404 also known as N-arachidonoylaminophenol is an active metabolite of paracetamol (acetaminophen) responsible for all or part of its analgesic action.

Methylnaltrexone (MNTX trade name Relistor) is one of the newer agents of peripherally-acting μ-opioid antagonists that act to reverse some of the side effects of opioid drugs such as constipation […]

Alvimopan (trade name Entereg) is a drug which behaves as a peripherally acting μ-opioid antagonist. With limited ability to cross the blood–brain barrier many of the undesirable side-effects of the […]

Ancestim is a recombinant methionyl human stem cell factor branded by Amgen as StemGen. It was developed by Amgen and sold to Biovitrium now Swedish Orphan Biovitrum in December 2008.It […]

Hemin (trade name Panhematin) is an iron-containing porphyrin. More specifically it is Protoporphyrin IX containing a ferric iron ion (Heme B) with a chloride ligand.It is used in the management […]

Sermorelin (trade name is Geref) is a growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) analogue. It is a 29-amino acid polypeptide representing the 1–29 fragment from endogenous human growth hormone releasing hormone […]

Tiazofurin is an inhibitor of IMP dehydrogenase. Tiazofurin and its analogues are under investigation for potential use in the treatment of cancer.

Febuxostat (INN; trade names: Adenuric in Europe and New Zealand Febutaz in India and Takeda’s Uloric in the US) is a urate lowering drug an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase that […]