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Dexmedetomidine, sold under the brand name Precedex among others, is a medication used for sedation. [4] Veterinarians use dexmedetomidine for similar purposes in treating cats, dogs, and horses. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] It is also used in humans to treat acute agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder . [ 5 ]
This is a list of investigational aggression drugs, or drugs that are currently under development for clinical use in the treatment of aggression but are not yet approved. Drugs used to treat aggression may also be known as "serenics". [1] Chemical/generic names are listed first, with developmental code names, synonyms, and brand names in ...
Atipamezole is a veterinary drug whose prime purpose is to reverse the effects of the sedative dexmedetomidine (as well as its racemic mixture, medetomidine). [note 1] [9] [10] It can also be used to reverse the related sedative xylazine. [11]
The drug, suzetrigine, received the FDA's official stamp of approval Thursday to be sold as a 50-milligram prescription pill taken every 12 hours, according to a press release.
In drug development, preclinical development (also termed preclinical studies or nonclinical studies) is a stage of research that begins before clinical trials (testing in humans) and during which important feasibility, iterative testing and drug safety data are collected, typically in laboratory animals.
Two days later, Vaught, a registered nurse, was instructed to administer Versed (midazolam, a sedating drug) to Murphey, but instead administered vecuronium (a paralyzing drug). [9] [10] Vaught had tried to withdraw Versed from an automated dispensing cabinet which is designed to communicate with the medical record software. The two electronic ...
Remimazolam was found to have both a more rapid onset and a shorter duration than midazolam, and human clinical trials showed a faster recovery time and predictable, consistent pharmacokinetics, suggesting some advantages over existing drugs for these applications.
Forward (classical) and reverse pharmacology approaches in drug discovery. In the field of drug discovery, classical pharmacology, [1] also known as forward pharmacology, [2] [3] [4] or phenotypic drug discovery (PDD), [5] relies on phenotypic screening (screening in intact cells or whole organisms) of chemical libraries of synthetic small molecules, natural products or extracts to identify ...