Medication and Pharmacology Terms

The hydrochloride salt of a natural alkaloid extracted from plants of the genus Pilocarpus with cholinergic agonist activity.

Pioglitazone is an oral diabetes medication that improves the body's sensitivity to insulin rather than increasing the amount of insulin the pancreas releases.

A diabetes tablet that works by reprogramming fat cells, which is why it takes weeks to act and adds weight while lowering sugar.

Piperacillin-tazobactam is a broad-spectrum antibiotic combination used to treat serious bacterial infections, including in people whose immune systems are weakened.

A long acting anti-inflammatory taken once a day, which is also why its effects on the stomach accumulate.

Timing decides whether it can work at all, because the drug acts on the release of an egg and not on anything afterward.

It is a prodrug: the tablet does nothing until the liver converts it, and some people carry an enzyme variant that converts it poorly.

A drug used to reduce the amount of testosterone made in patients with advanced symptomatic prostate cancer for which no other treatment options are available.

A drug that works by cutting a tether, so stem cells released from the marrow can simply be drawn off through a vein.

Plevitrexed is an investigational drug studied for its ability to block a cellular enzyme that dividing cancer cells need to copy DNA.

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

A form of the anticancer drug paclitaxel that is contained in very tiny, fat-like particles.

A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer.

One of the broadest antifungal drugs available, valued for covering molds that most others in its class miss.

In medicine, the effect of increasing the potency or effectiveness of a drug or other treatment.

A folate analogue inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) exhibiting high affinity for reduced folate carrier-1 (RFC-1) with antineoplastic and immunosuppressive activities.

One of the statins least entangled with other medicines, since it dissolves in water and skips the liver enzyme so many drugs compete for.

The water-loving member of the statin family, which is why it sidesteps most of the drug interactions that trouble the others.

Research using animals to find out if a drug, procedure, or treatment is likely to be useful.

Eye drops, oral liquids and tablets all exist, and the palatable liquids are why it is so common in children.