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Status:
US Approved Rx (2017)
First approved in 2008

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (RACEMIC)



Tetrabenazine (trade name Xenazine) is a monoamine depleter and used as the symptomatic treatment of chorea associated with Huntington's disease. Tetrabenazine is a reversible human vesicular monoamine transporter type 2 inhibitor (Ki = 100 nM). It ...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2017)
First approved in 2017

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



(+)-alpha-Dihydrotetrabenazine (HTBZ) is an active component of tetrabenazine. Tetrabenazine is a mixture of closely-related compounds (isomers) and is readily metabolized in the human body to HTBZ and related isomers. Tetrabenazine is a drug for the...