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Developed by Schering-Plough after its merger with Organon International, asenapine is a sublingually administered, atypical antipsychotic for treatment of schizophrenia and acute mania associated with bipolar disorder. Asenapine also belongs to the dibenzo-oxepino pyrrole class. It is also for severe post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares in soldiers as an off-label use. FDA approved on August 13, 2009.
Lactitol, also known as 4-β-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol, is a sugar alcohol synthesized from [lactose]. It is used in food manufacturing as a nutritive sweetener and is approximately 35% as sweet as table sugar (i.e. [sucrose]). Clinically, lactitol has been investigated for use as an osmotic laxative and, along with other non-absorbable disaccharides such as [lactulose], in the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis.[A190915,A190918] Pizensy, an oral lactitol powder for solution, was approved by the FDA for use in chronic idiopathic constipation in February 2020.
Asenapine {u} (Compound) resembles {v} (Compound) Loxapine
Asenapine {u} (Compound) binds {v} (Gene) HRH2
Asenapine {u} (Compound) downregulates {v} (Gene) IGFBP2
Asenapine {u} (Compound) causes {v} (Side Effect) Parkinsonism
Asenapine (Compound) resembles Loxapine (Compound)
Asenapine (Compound) binds HRH2 (Gene)
Asenapine (Compound) downregulates IGFBP2 (Gene)
Asenapine (Compound) causes Parkinsonism (Side Effect)