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Repositioning Candidate Details

Candidate ID: R0193
Source ID: DB00679
Source Type: approved; withdrawn
Compound Type: small molecule
Compound Name: Thioridazine
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Molecular Formula: C21H26N2S2
SMILES: CSC1=CC2=C(SC3=CC=CC=C3N2CCC2CCCCN2C)C=C1
Structure:
DrugBank Description: A phenothiazine antipsychotic used in the management of psychoses, including schizophrenia, and in the control of severely disturbed or agitated behavior. It has little antiemetic activity. Thioridazine has a higher incidence of antimuscarinic effects, but a lower incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms, than chlorpromazine. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p618). Thioridazine was withdrawn worldwide in 2005 due to it's association with cardiac arrythmias.
CAS Number: 50-52-2
Molecular Weight: 370.575
DrugBank Indication: For the treatment of schizophrenia and generalized anxiety disorder.
DrugBank Pharmacology: Thioridazine is a trifluoro-methyl phenothiazine derivative intended for the management of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Thioridazine has not been shown effective in the management of behaviorial complications in patients with mental retardation.
DrugBank MoA: Thioridazine blocks postsynaptic mesolimbic dopaminergic D1 and D2 receptors in the brain; blocks alpha-adrenergic effect, depresses the release of hypothalamic and hypophyseal hormones and is believed to depress the reticular activating system thus affecting basal metabolism, body temperature, wakefulness, vasomotor tone, and emesis.
Targets: Dopamine D2 receptor; Dopamine D1 receptor; Alpha-1A adrenergic receptor; Alpha-1B adrenergic receptor; 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor 2A; Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 2
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