The question of putative mechanisms of action continues to haunt psychopharmacology. Put simply, we know these drugs work, but we have very little idea how. We make guesses based on the ...

Knowledge of a drug's mechanism of action enables better dosing through monitoring of the drug's effects on the target pathway in the patient. For example, the proper statin dosage for a given ...

Among the 55 novel drugs that crossed the regulatory finish line last year were notable new mechanisms of action, coming ...

Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood ... ethanol and psychotropic drugs. Numerous experimental studies suggest that it acts as a free radical scavenger, with other liver-specific ...

Depression continues to grapple a large proportion of the population. Given the side effects associated with the long-term ...

Researchers at CeMM and the Medical University of Vienna have developed an innovative microscopy-based approach that could ...

BCL-2 inhibitors, such as venetoclax (Venclexta) work by targeting the BCL-2 protein, which plays a key role in preventing apoptosis, or programmed cell death. According to John Seymour, MD, ...

Escitalopram (as oxalate) 1mg/mL; peppermint flavor; contains parabens. The mechanism of antidepressant action of escitalopram, the S-enantiomer of racemic citalopram, is presumed to be linked to ...