Captopril

June 17, 2021 Rima 0

Captopril is first ACE (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) inhibitor discovered in 1981. ACE inhibitors are commonly used medicine in cardiovascular field. Indications of captopril Used to […]

Loperamide

June 16, 2021 Rima 0

Loperamide is popular antidiarrheal medicine used from many years in medical field. It was synthesized in 1969 and got its FDA approval and first used […]

D-cycloserine

June 15, 2021 Rima 0

Cycloserine is broad spectrum antibiotic having tuberculostatic effect. It is obtained from S. orchidaceous and S. garyphalus. It is analogue of amino acid D-alanine. Chemically, […]

Aducanumab

June 10, 2021 Rima 0

Aducanumab is recently approved by FDA (7th June 2021) for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. It is the first of its type and targets progression of […]

Spiramycin

June 8, 2021 Rima 0

Spiramycin is a member of macrolide antibiotic. Macrolide antibiotics are a group of antibiotics which are composed of a macrocyclic lactone of different ring sizes […]

Gentamicin

June 4, 2021 Rima 0

Gentamicin is aminoglycoside antibiotics used to treat infections caused by aerobic gram-negative bacteria. It is produced by Micromonospora purpura. Gentamicin is aminoglycoside of first choice […]

Streptomycin

June 2, 2021 Rima 0

Streptomycin is first aminoglycoside antibiotic to be discovered and is used in medical field since 1940s. It is originally obtained from soil organism Streptomyces griseus. […]

Teicoplanin

May 28, 2021 Rima 0

Teicoplanin is glycopeptide antibiotic which consist of mixture of several compounds. Five are major compounds named teicoplanin A2-1 to A2-5 and four are minor compounds […]

Clindamycin

May 27, 2021 Rima 0

Clindamycin is lincosamide antibiotic. It is 7(S)- chloro-7- deoxylincomycin, a semisynthetic derivative of lincomycin which is a natural antibiotic produced by actinobacterium Streptomyces lincolnesis. It […]

Alteplase

May 26, 2021 Rima 0

Alteplase is a recombinant form of human tissue plasminogen activator. It is produced by recombinant DNA technology from human tissue culture. Chemically, it is similar […]