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The essential metals for humans are: Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Copper, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Zinc, Molybdenum, and Cadmium. Anemia symptoms are caused by lack of a certain essential metal. Anemia can be associated with malnourishment or faulty metabolic processes, usually caused by a genetic defect.
Metallopharmaceutical. A metallopharmaceutical is a drug that contains a metal as an active ingredient. [1][2] Most commonly metallopharmaceuticals are used as anticancer or antimicrobial agents. The efficiency of metallopharmaceuticals is crucially dependent on the respective trace metal binding forms. [3]
Bactericidal action via a so-called oligodynamic effect in which small amounts of heavy metals such as bismuth damage many different bacteria species. Weak antacid properties; In vitro and in vivo data have shown that bismuth subsalicylate hydrolyzes in the gut to bismuth oxychloride and salicylic acid and less commonly bismuth hydroxide. In ...
Certain lithium compounds, also known as lithium salts, are used as psychiatric medication, [4] primarily for bipolar disorder and for major depressive disorder. [4] Lithium is taken orally (by mouth). [4] Common side effects include increased urination, shakiness of the hands, and increased thirst. [4]
Mirtazapine is a tetracyclic piperazinoazepine; mianserin was developed by the same team of organic chemists and mirtazapine differs from it via addition of a nitrogen atom in one of the rings. [115]: 429 [116][117] It is a racemic mixture of enantiomers. The (S)- (+)-enantiomer is known as esmirtazapine.
Dimercaprol, also called British anti-Lewisite (BAL), is a medication used to treat acute poisoning by arsenic, mercury, gold, and lead. [3] It may also be used for antimony, thallium, or bismuth poisoning, although the evidence for those uses is not very strong. [3][4] It is given by injection into a muscle. [3]
Fluticasone propionate. Fluticasone propionate, sold under the brand names Flovent and Flonase among others, is a glucocorticoid steroid medication. [8] When inhaled it is used for the long term management of asthma and COPD. [8] In the nose it is used for hay fever and nasal polyps. [9][10] It can also be used for mouth ulcers. [11]
Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic. It is 20 to 40 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; [9] its primary clinical utility is in pain management for cancer patients and those recovering from painful surgeries. [10][11] Fentanyl is also used as a sedative. [12]