quinidine
IPA: kwˈɪnɪdin
noun
- (organic chemistry, pharmacology) A compound obtained from cinchona bark and used to treat irregularities of heart rhythm. It is an isomer of quinine.
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Examples of "quinidine" in Sentences
- Quinidine is a direct derivative of quinine.
- Here, procainamide or quinidine are often used.
- Example of the first mechanism is the quinidine group of drugs.
- Chichonism describes tinnitus and hearing loss with quinidine excess.
- The classic example of this mechanism is the quinidine group of drugs.
- But it's not dextromethorphan, it's a combination of that and quinidine.
- Quinidine toxicity can lead to cinchonism and also to quinine amaurosis.
- Quinidine is recommended only for the treatment of severe cases of malaria.
- However,quinidine is not considered the first line therapy for P. falciparum.
- Quinidine sulfate is used in the treatment of atrial fibrillation in the horse.
- Quinine, a famous malaria treatment, and quinidine, an antiarrhythmic medication, are made from the bark of the cinchona tree.
- What we have done is recognized that you can inhibit ones ability to metabolize dextromethorphan by adding quinidine, which is a therapeutic.
- Generic pharmaceuticals are not new since even before 1965 several products appeared on the market such as phenobarbitol, digoxin, quinidine, and many others and nobody paid much attention to them.
- QT-prolonging agents (eg, quinidine, sotalol, thioridazine), quinolones (eg, ciprofloxacin), or streptogramins (eg, mikamycin) because serious, possibly life-threatening side effects on the heart or irregular heartbeat may occur
- You could consider changing the way you are delivering quinidine which is your 2D6 inhibitor, you could consider looking at other 2D6 inhibitors that might produce the same thing or you might just want to develop a new [analong] for dextromethorphan.
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