List of articles in "Drug" category - Page 365

Haloprogin is an antifungal drug used to treat athlete’s foot and other fungal infections. It is marketed in creams under the trade names Halotex Mycanden Mycilan and Polik.

Cetrorelix acetate (trade name Cetrotide) is an injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH antagonist). A synthetic decapeptide it is used to treat hormone-sensitive cancers of the prostate and breast (in pre-/perimenopausal […]

Hydrastinine is a semisynthetic alkaloid from the hydrolysis of the alkaloid hydrastine which was found naturally in small quantities in Hydrastis canadensis L. (Ranunculaceae). Hydrastinine was produced by oxidative splitting […]

Hydrastine is a natural alkaloid which was discovered in 1851 by Alfred P. Durand. Hydrolysis of hydrastine yields hydrastinine which was patented by Bayer as a haemostatic drug during the […]

Ganirelix acetate (or diacetate) is an injectable competitive gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH antagonist). It is primarily used in assisted reproduction to control ovulation. The drug works by blocking the action […]

Abatacept (marketed as Orencia) is a fusion protein composed of the Fc region of the immunoglobulin IgG1 fused to the extracellular domain of CTLA-4. It is a molecule capable of […]

Levobetaxolol is a drug used to lower the pressure in the eye in treating conditions such as glaucoma. It is typically marketed as a 0.5% ophthalmic solution of levobetaxolol hydrochloride […]

Deferiprone (tradenames include Ferriprox) is a drug that chelates iron and is used to treat thalassaemia major.In 1994 was first approved for use in treating thalassaemia major in 1994. and […]

Dantron (INN) also known as chrysazin or 18-dihydroxyanthraquinone is an organic substance formally derived from anthraquinone by the replacement of two hydrogen atoms by hydroxyl groups (–OH). It is used […]

Reposal is a barbiturate derivative invented in the 1960s in Denmark. It has sedative hypnotic and anticonvulsant properties and was used primarily for the treatment of insomnia.