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unusual facts about benzodiazepine


Cancer and nausea

Benzodiazepines are the only drugs that have been found to reduce the occurrence of ANV but their efficacy decreases with time.


Anxiolytic

Tofisopam (Emandaxin and Grandaxin) is a drug that is a benzodiazepine derivative.

Rega Institute for Medical Research

The Nucleoside analogs, d4T, 3'-fluoro-3'-deoxythymidine (FLT) and 3'-fluorodideoxyguanosine (FLG), and the NNRTI's 1-(2-hydroxy-ethoxy) methyl-6-phenylthiothymine (HEPT), tetrahydro-imidazo4,5,1-jk1,4-benzodiazepine-2(1H)-one and -thione (TIBO) and alpha-anilinophenylacetamide (alpha-APA) were first described at the Rega Institute.

Ro4938581

Ro4938581 is a nootropic drug invented in 2009 by a team working for Hoffmann-La Roche, which acts as a subtype-selective inverse agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site on the receptor.


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