Many doctors are quick to prescribe dangerous drugs to their patients. Unfortunately, this could lead to the user’s demise.

The mechanism of antidepressant action of escitalopram, the S-enantiomer of racemic citalopram, is presumed to be linked to potentiation of serotonergic activity in the CNS resulting from its ...

Esketamine (Spravato) was the first new depression treatment in decades. It brought depressed people hope. It also brought ...

The other mirror image is known as the S-enantiomer. When the R-enantiomer and S-enantiomer are combined, they create a racemic mixture. However, armodafinil only contains the R-enantiomer, meaning it ...

Levocloperastine is a novel antitussive with a pharmacological profile distinct from that of the racemic DL-cloperastine. Levocloperastine with its dual mechanism of action acts on both the ...

Chirality is discussed, followed by enantiomers, diastereomers, racemic mixtures, and meso compounds. Optical activity and Fischer projections are also covered. These topics span a timeframe of ...

today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has accepted the Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) for KETARX™ (racemic ketamine) to th ...

The company’s lead drug candidate utilizing WaferiX is Wafermine, the world’s first patented sublingual racemic ketamine wafer for the treatment of acute moderate to severe pain and major ...

The mixture is composed of equal parts racemic amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, which produces a (3:1) ratio between dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine, the two enantiomers of amphetamine.

Both substances had the same percentage composition. A few years after, Berzelius showed that racemic and tartaric acids have the same composition, but different properties, and from this time on ...

That news came on top of a September 2023 miss on its phase 2 trial of its SLS-002 intranasal racemic ketamine treatment for suicidal ideation and severe depression. The trial failed to include ...