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Allopurinol
A xanthine oxidase inhibitor that reduces the production of uric acid, developed in the United States by Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings and used against gout since the mid-1960s. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, labelled standards, nitrosamines and other impurities.
Did you know?It was first studied for another purpose: protecting the anti-leukaemia drug 6-mercaptopurine from being broken down. Elion and Hitchings later received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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EDQM standards 5
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
