Medical Definition of Tetrabenazine
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A drug formerly used as an antipsychotic but now used primarily in the treatment of various movement disorders including tardive dyskinesia. Tetrabenazine blocks uptake into adrenergic storage vesicles and has been used as a high affinity label for the vesicle transport system.
Pharmacological action: adrenergic uptake inhibitors, affinity labels, anti-dyskinesia agents.
Chemical name: 2H-Benzo(a)quinolizin-2-one, 1,3,4,6,7,11b-hexahydro-9,10-dimethoxy-3-(2-methylpropyl)-
(12 Dec 1998)
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