General information Glycols are aliphatic dihydric alcohols. Primary and secondary glycols are thick liquids, and tertiary glycols (pinacones) are crystalline solids. The principal glycols to which people are or have been exposed, either occupationally or in medicinal products, are listed…
General information Glycine is an amino acid that is used in a 1.5% solution for bladder irrigation during transurethral prostatectomy and sometimes continuously for 24 hours after surgery. It has also been used to irrigate renal stone fragments after percutaneous…
General information Glycerol is a colorless syrupy liquid that is used medically as a laxative given orally, as an enema, or in the form of suppositories. Oral hypertonic glycerol has been used as a test for reversibility of the symptoms…
General information Aldehydes such as glutaral (glutaraldehyde), formaldehyde, and glyoxal are used as solutions and vapors for disinfection and sterilization. The safety and biocidal efficacy of glutaral has led to its endorsement by the CDC and WHO as a substitute…
General information Among other drugs glutamic acid has been proposed to be neuroprotective, and it has been used to reduce vincristine neurotoxicity [ ]. In a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, concurrent oral administration of 500 mg glutamic acid tds with…
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General information Glucagon-like peptide-1 is an intestinal hormone that increases insulin secretion and biosynthesis, has a trophic effect on beta cells, suppresses glucagon secretion, delays gastric emptying, increases satiety, and reduces food intake [ ]. Its effects are glucose-dependent and…
General information Glucagon, which is produced in the alpha cells of the islets of Langerhans, is used in type 1 diabetes mellitus to stimulate glucose output from the liver during hypoglycemia (1 mg subcutaneously, repeated once or twice) when glucose…
General information Glaucine is a non-narcotic antitussive agent with anti-inflammatory action but little analgesic action [ ]. The D-isomer of glaucine is an alkaloid from Glaucium flavum Crantz , a species of Papaveraceae [ ]. It is as effective as…
General information Glatiramer acetate (Copaxone, also known as co-polymer 1 or cop-1) is an immunomodulatory drug that consists of a pool of synthetic peptides composed of random sequences of four amino acids, l -alanine, l -lysine, l -glutamic acid, and…