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An antiemetic is a drug that is effective against vomiting and nausea.Antiemetics are typically used to treat motion sickness and the side effects of opioid analgesics, general anaesthetics, and chemotherapy directed against cancer.
Tachykinins are a family of neuropeptides that share the same hydrophobic C-terminal region with the amino acid sequence Phe-X-Gly-Leu-Met-NH 2, where X represents a hydrophobic residue that is either an aromatic or a beta-branched aliphatic.