 Pravastatin
"Pravastatin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An antilipemic fungal metabolite isolated from cultures of Nocardia autotrophica. It acts as a competitive inhibitor of HMG CoA reductase (HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES).
| Descriptor ID |
D017035
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.426.559.847.638.930 D04.615.638.930
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| Concept/Terms |
Vasten- Vasten
- Aventis Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Lin-Pravastatin- Lin-Pravastatin
- Lin Pravastatin
- Linson Pharma Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Lipemol- Lipemol
- Squibb Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Liplat- Liplat
- Esteve Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Nu-Pravastatin- Nu-Pravastatin
- Nu Pravastatin
- Nu-Pharma Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Prareduct- Prareduct
- Sankyo Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
- Mevalotin
Pravachol- Pravachol
- Elisor
- Selektine
- Pravacol
- Pravasin
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
- Lipostat
SQ-31000- SQ-31000
- SQ 31000
- SQ31000
- SQ-31,000
- SQ 31,000
- SQ31,000
Apo-Pravastatin- Apo-Pravastatin
- Apo Pravastatin
- Apotex Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
Bristacol- Bristacol
- Juste Brand of Pravastatin Sodium
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pravastatin" by people in Profiles.
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Wong GK, Poon WS. Is there an interaction between pravastatin and clinical events other than vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage? Stroke. 2006 Feb; 37(2):335; author reply 335.
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Morikawa S, Umetani M, Nakagawa S, Yamazaki H, Suganami H, Inoue K, Kitahara M, Hamakubo T, Kodama T, Saito Y. Relative induction of mRNA for HMG CoA reductase and LDL receptor by five different HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors in cultured human cells. J Atheroscler Thromb. 2000; 7(3):138-44.
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