Primidone
"Primidone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An antiepileptic agent related to the barbiturates; it is partly metabolized to PHENOBARBITAL in the body and owes some of its actions to this metabolite. Adverse effects are reported to be more frequent than with phenobarbital. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p309)
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D011324
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.698.253.650.700
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Dong MM, Trenholm R, Rosario-Ortiz FL. Photochemical degradation of atenolol, carbamazepine, meprobamate, phenytoin and primidone in wastewater effluents. J Hazard Mater. 2015 Jan 23; 282:216-23.