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Descriptor English: Tetrabenazine
Descriptor Spanish: Tetrabenazina
Descriptor tetrabenacina
Scope note: Fármaco utilizado en el pasado como antipsicótico y para el tratamiento de diiversos trastornos del movimiento. La tetrabenacina bloquea la respuesta neurotransmisora en las vesículas de almacenamiento adrenérgico, habiendose utilizado como marcador de alta afinidad para el sistema de transporte de vesículas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Tetrabenazina
Descriptor French: Tétrabénazine
Entry term(s): Nitoman
Xenazine
Tree number(s): D03.633.100.834.850
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013747
Scope note: A drug formerly used as an antipsychotic and treatment of various movement disorders. Tetrabenazine blocks neurotransmitter uptake into adrenergic storage vesicles and has been used as a high affinity label for the vesicle transport system.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Pharm Action: Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Registry Number: Z9O08YRN8O
CAS Type 1 Name: 2H-Benzo(a)quinolizin-2-one, 1,3,4,6,7,11b-hexahydro-9,10-dimethoxy-3-(2-methylpropyl)-
DeCS ID: 14127
Unique ID: D013747
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/05/24
Tetrabenazine - Preferred
Concept UI M0021208
Scope note A drug formerly used as an antipsychotic and treatment of various movement disorders. Tetrabenazine blocks neurotransmitter uptake into adrenergic storage vesicles and has been used as a high affinity label for the vesicle transport system.
Preferred term Tetrabenazine
Nitoman - Narrower
Concept UI M0476241
Preferred term Nitoman
Xenazine - Narrower
Concept UI M0476242
Preferred term Xenazine



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