"Vigabatrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An analogue of GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID. It is an irreversible inhibitor of 4-AMINOBUTYRATE TRANSAMINASE, the enzyme responsible for the catabolism of GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID. (From Martindale The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 31st ed)
Descriptor ID |
D020888
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MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.081.114.500.350.900 D12.125.190.350.900
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Concept/Terms |
Vigabatrin- Vigabatrin
- gamma-Vinyl-GABA
- gamma Vinyl GABA
- gamma-Vinyl-gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
- Acid, gamma-Vinyl-gamma-Aminobutyric
- gamma Vinyl gamma Aminobutyric Acid
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2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vigabatrin" by people in Profiles.
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Response to second treatment after initial failed treatment in a multicenter prospective infantile spasms cohort. Epilepsia. 2016 11; 57(11):1834-1842.
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Response to treatment in a prospective national infantile spasms cohort. Ann Neurol. 2016 Mar; 79(3):475-84.
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Pre- rather than co-application of vigabatrin increases the efficacy of tiagabine in hippocampal slices. Epilepsia. 2002 Dec; 43(12):1455-61.