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Metoclopramide
An antiemetic and prokinetic that blocks dopamine D2 receptors, first described in France in 1964 by Louis Justin-Besançon and Charles Laville: it is used against nausea, vomiting and slow stomach emptying. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, labelled standards, nitrosamines and other impurities.
Did you know?It came out of research aimed at improving the antiarrhythmic properties of procainamide: the same line of work also produced the antipsychotic sulpiride.
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EDQM standards 4
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.
