Huperzine A is a plant alkaloid derived from Club moss plant, Huperzine serrata, which is a member or the Lycopodium species. Huperzine-A is in phase III clinical trial in the USA (Alzheimer disease) and is available as a dietary supplement. It selectively and reversibly inhibits acetylcholinesterase. Huperzine A is also a NMDA receptor antagonist, which protects the brain against glutamate induced damage, and it increases nerve growth factor levels. Huperzine A is used for Alzheimer's disease, memory and learning enhancement, and age-related memory impairment. It is also used for treating a muscle disease called myasthenia gravis, for increasing alertness and energy, and for protecting against agents that damage the nerves such as nerve gases. It can cause some side effects including nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, sweating, blurred vision, slurred speech, restlessness, loss of appetite, contraction and twitching of muscle fibers, cramping, increased saliva and urine, inability to control urination, high blood pressure, and slowed heart rate. Various medications used for glaucoma, Alzheimer's disease, and other conditions (Cholinergic drugs) interacts with Huperzine A.

Tioclomarol is an orally administered coumarin anticoagulant. It is a long acting vitamin K antagonist.

BISBUTYTIAMINE is a Vitamin B derivative, analgesic. BISBUTYTIAMINE has being shown to be useful for preventing and treating AIDS, because it has the effect of inhibiting the growth of HIV on early infected cells without killing the cells and both of the cytocidal and HIV-killing effects on the cells that have come to produce HIV continuously.

Ataluren (Translarna) is a small-molecule drug approved in Europe for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy caused by a nonsense mutation. Ataluren interacts with the ribosome enabling it to read through premature nonsense stop signals on mRNA and allowing the cell to produce a full-length, functional protein. Ataluren is also being tested in phase III for cystic fibrosis caused by a nonsense mutation.

Isoaminile is a cough suppressant that acts by influencing the cough centre.

Bisbentiamine is an O-benzoyl thiamine disulfide or vitamin B1 disulfide derivative. Thiamine derivatives and thiamine-dependent enzymes are present in all cells of the body, thus a thiamine deficiency would seem to adversely affect all of the organ systems. Lipid-soluble thiamine precursors such as Bisbentiamine have a much higher bioavailability than genuine thiamine and therefore are more suitable for therapeutic purposes. It is also used as a dietary supplement.

Protionamide is a thioamide derivative with antitubercular activity, usually involving to treat MDR TB and leprosy. It has the same active substances and cross-resistance with ethionamide. Prothionamide is part of a group of drugs thioamides. The side effects of prothionamide are similar to ethionamide. Prothionamide is most commonly associated with nausea and vomiting. It may cause depression and hallucinations. Rarely, prothionamide will cause jaundice, menstrual disturbances and peripheral neuropathy. Prothionamide has received approval in Germany for the treatment of TB and drug resistant TB. While prothionamide is widely used to treat MDR TB, there is little published evidence demonstrating safety and efficacy. Protionamide forms a covalent adduct with bacterial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), PTH-NAD, which competitively inhibits 2-trans-enoyl-ACP reductase (inhA), an enzyme essential for mycolic acid synthesis. This results in increased cell wall permeability and decreased resistance against cell injury eventually leading to cell lysis. Mycolic acids, long-chain fatty acids, are essential mycobacterial cell wall components and play a key role in resistance to cell injury and mycobacterial virulence.

Maxacalcitol (OXAROL®) is a derivative of vitamin D and is used to treat the secondary hyperparathyroidism of hemodialysis (HD) patients as an injection and psoriasis as an ointment. Secondary hyperparathyroidism is one of the complications in HD patients with hyperplasia of parathyroid glands and elevated serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Maxacalcitol (OXAROL®) suppresses synthesis and secretion of parathyroid hormone, and decreases a concentration of parathyroid hormone in blood. It also inhibits proliferation and induces differentiation of epidermal keratinocytes. Maxacalcitol (OXAROL®) used in patients with keratosis including psoriasis vulgaris, remarkably improving the symptoms.

Alfacalcidol (1-hydroxyvitamin D3) is a synthetic analog of vitamin D introduced clinically in the early 1970s. A prodrug for calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3), it is one of the most potent and rapidly acting compounds currently used in the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency states and hypocalcemia. The clinical benefit of alfacalcidol is related to the stimulation of calcium and phosphorus absorption, reversal of myopathy, promotion of mineralization in bone and the ability to reabsorb fully mineralized bone. Similar marketed vitamin D compounds include calcitriol and ergocalciferol. Alfacalcidol is indicated in conditions where there is a disturbance of calcium metabolism due to impaired 1-α hydroxylation such as when there is reduced renal function.

Falecalcitriol is an analog of calcitriol. Falecalcitriol was first approved by Pharmaceuticals and Medicals Devices Agency of Japan (PMDA) on Apr 4, 2001. It was co-developed by Taisho, Dainippon Sumitomo and Kissei, then marketed as Hornel by Taisho and Taisho Toyama or as Fulstan by Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma and Kissei in JP. It has a higher potency both in vivo and in vitro systems, and longer duration of action in vivo. This medicine improves bone disease and symptoms caused by shortage of vitamin D, etc. It also prompts calcium absorption to supply lacked calcium and prevents bone-thinning. It is usually used to treat secondary hyperparathyroidism under maintenance dialysis, hypoparathyroidism, rickets or osteomalacia. Falecalcitriol regulates the proliferation of parathyroid cells and parathyroid hormone synthesis possibly via binding to a nuclear receptor for vitamin D (VDR). It is often not possible to administer doses high enough to sufficiently inhibit parathyroid hormones because of the risk of hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia.