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L-DOPA (L-34-dihydroxyphenylalanine) is a chemical that is made and used as part of the normal biology of humans some animals and plants. Some animals and humans make it via biosynthesis […]

Bicuculline is a light-sensitive competitive antagonist of GABAA receptors. It was originally identified in 1932 in plant alkaloid extracts and has been isolated from Dicentra cucullaria Adlumia fungosa Fumariaceae and […]

Psilocin (also known as 4-OH-DMT psilocine psilocyn or psilotsin) is a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance. It is present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated […]

Chlorhexidine is a cationic polybiguanide (bisbiguanide). It is used primarily as its salts (e.g. the dihydrochloride diacetate and digluconate).It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines a […]

Prostacyclin (also called prostaglandin I2 or PGI2) is a prostaglandin member of the family of lipid molecules known as eicosanoids. It inhibits platelet activation and is also an effective vasodilator.As […]

Mupirocin (Bactroban or Centany) is an antibiotic of the monoxycarbolic acid class. It was originally isolated from Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 10586 developed by Beecham. Mupirocin is bacteriostatic at low concentrations […]

Bacitracin is a mixture of related cyclic polypeptides produced by organisms of the licheniformis group of Bacillus subtilis var Tracy first isolated in 1945. These peptides disrupt both gram positive […]

Colistin (polymyxin E) is a polymyxin antibiotic produced by certain strains of Bacillus polymyxa var. colistinus. Colistin is a mixture of cyclic polypeptides colistin A and B. Colistin is effective […]

Oxymorphone (Opana Numorphan Numorphone) or 14-Hydroxydihydromorphinone is a powerful semi-synthetic opioid analgesic first developed in Germany in 1914 patented in the USA by Endo Pharmaceuticals in 1955 and introduced to […]

Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi (trade name Cardiolite) is a pharmaceutical agent used in nuclear medicine imaging. The drug is a coordination complex consisting of the radioisotope technetium-99m bound to six (sesta=6) […]