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Status:
US Approved Rx (2009)
First approved in 1997

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Ropinirole (INN; trade names Requip, Repreve, Ronirol, Adartrel) is a dopamine agonist of the non-ergoline class of medications, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and restless legs syndrome. Although the precise mechanism of action of ropi...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2015)
First approved in 1984

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Pimozide (Orap) is a diphenylbutylpiperidine that is effective as an antipsychotic agent and as an alternative to haloperidol for the suppression of vocal and motor tics in patients with Tourette syndrome. It is not intended as a treatment of first c...
Status:
US Approved Rx (1991)
First approved in 1980

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Amoxapine is an antidepressant of the dibenzoxazepine class, chemically distinct from the dibenzazepines, dibenzocycloheptenes, and dibenzoxepines. It is designated chemically as 2-Chloro-11- (1-piperazinyl)dibenz[b,f ][1,4]oxazepine. Amoxapine is an...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2018)
First approved in 1974

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Dopamine, a sympathomimetic amine vasopressor, is the naturally occurring immediate precursor of norepinephrine. G protein-coupled dopamine receptors (D1, D2, D3, D4, and D5) mediate all of the physiological functions of the catecholaminergic neurotr...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2019)
First approved in 1970

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



Levodopa (L-DOPA) was first isolated from seedlings of Vicia faba by Marcus Guggenheim in 1913. Levodopa, a dopamine precursor, is an effective and well-tolerated dopamine replacement agent used to treat Parkinson's disease. Oral levodopa has been wi...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2019)
First approved in 1967

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Thiothixene (trade mark Navane) belongs to a class of antipsychotics known as the first-generation antipsychotics, sometimes referred to as conventional or typical antipsychotics. Thiothixene is a thioxanthene antipsychotic which elicits antipsychoti...
Status:
Investigational

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (MIXED)



Dicarbine is an orally active drug approved in Russia under the trade name Карбидин, is used for the treatment patients with schizophrenia and alcoholic psychosis. This drug blocks dopamine receptors in various brain parts, which leads to a reduction...
Status:
Investigational

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)


LEVOFENFLURAMINE is a levorotatory enantiomer of fenfluramine, a substituted amphetamine which was formerly used to treat obesity. LEVOFENFLURAMINE has dopamine-antagonistic properties and, at high doses, increases dopamine concentrations in rat stri...
Status:
Investigational

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)


Conditions:

There is no much available information related to the biological and pharmacological application of imidoline, but this compound has been found to be as potent as chlorpromazine in increasing striatal DOPA accumulation and prolactin secretion in vivo...
Status:
Investigational

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (RACEMIC)


Prosulpride is an aminosulfonylbenzamide derivative with potent neuroleptic activity. Prosulpride selectively blocks the presynaptic dopaminergic receptors and antagonize apomorphine-induced stereotyped behavior, circling behavior, climbing behavior,...