An antiepileptic drug is medication used to treat epilepsy. Epilepsy is a condition where people have epileptic seizures (also known as fits, attacks, turns or convulsions). A seizure happens when there is a sudden disturbance in the way the nerve cells in the brain work. Seizures are usually short, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes.

Side Effects: Antiepileptic drugs decrease membrane excitability, increase postsynaptic inhibition or alter synchronization of neural networks to decrease excessive neuronal excitability associated with seizure development.

Common Side Effects:
Decreasing neuronal excitability, however, are slowed motor and psychomotor speed, poorer attention and mild memory impairment. Unlike adults, cognitive side effects in children occur against the backdrop of normal cognitive and psychosocial development, and treatment decisions made in childhood may have lifelong implications. Adults who developed epilepsy during their childhood tend to have less education, decreased rates of employment and employment at lower job levels, lower rates of marriage, poorer physical health, and increased incidence of psychiatric disorders.


Antidiabetic:

Anti-diabetic drugs treat diabetes mellitus by lowering glucose levels in the blood.


With the exceptions of insulin, exenatide and pramlintide, all are administered orally and are thus also called oral hypoglycemic agents or oral antihyperglycemic agents. There are different classes of anti-diabetic drugs, and their selection depends on the nature of the diabetes, age and situation of the person, as well as other factors.

Anti-Anginal:
An antianginal is any drug used in the treatment of angina pectoris, a symptom of ischaemic heart disease.Angina pectoris is chest pain triggered by exertion. Angina pectoris occurs when the heart needs more oxygenated blood to adequately increase the heart rate. Several drugs may be prescribed to prevent the pain of angina. Angina pectoris is usually the first clinical sign of underlying myocardial ischemia, which results from an imbalance between oxygen supply and oxygen demand in the heart.

This report describes the pharmacology of β-adrenoceptor antagonists as it relates to the treatment of angina. The β-adrenoceptor antagonists are widely used in long-term maintenance therapy to prevent acute ischemic episodes in patients with chronic stable angina. Beta-adrenoceptor antagonists competitively inhibit the binding of endogenous catecholamines to β1-adrenoceptors in the heart.

Purpose:
Systemic Anti-Fungal Drugs are used to treat infections in various parts of the body that are caused by a fungus. A fungus is a one-celled form of life. Unlike a plant, which makes its own food, or an animal, which eats plants or other animals, a fungus survives by invading and living off other living things. Fungi thrive in moist, dark places, including some parts of the body.


Our Range:

    * Lamotrigine
    * Pioglitazone
    * Rosiglitazone
    * Nitroglycerine
    * Vetazidine
    * Fluconazole

• Antiplatelet:

Platelets are blood cells that are help the blood clot (stick together) and prevent bleeding. When the body has a cut, scratch, bruise or bleed, platelets go into action and begin to work.An antiplatelet drug is a member of a class of pharmaceuticals that decreases platelet aggregation and inhibits thrombus formation. They are effective in the arterial circulation, where anticoagulants have little effect.OR Antiplatelets help prevent dangerous blood clots from forming. 

• Antiviral:

An agent that kills a virus or that suppresses its ability to replicate and, hence, inhibits its capability to multiply and reproduce. Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections. Like antibiotics for bacteria, specific antivirals are used for specific viruses. Antiviral drugs are one class of antimicrobials, a larger group which also includes antibiotic, antifungal and antiparasitic drugs. They are relatively harmless to the host, and therefore can be used to treat infections. They should be distinguished from viricides, which actively deactivate virus particles outside the body.

Anticoagulants drugs are drugs used to prevent clot formation or to prevent a clot that has formed from enlarging. They inhibit clot formation by blocking the action of clotting factors or platelets. Anticoagulant drugs fall into three categories: inhibitors of clotting factor synthesis, inhibitors of thrombin and antiplatelet drugs.

Purpose:
Anticoagulant drugs reduce the ability of the blood to form clots. Although blood clotting is essential to prevent serious bleeding in the case of skin cuts, clots inside the blood vessels block the flow of blood to major organs and cause heart attacks and strokes. Although these drugs are sometimes called blood thinners, they do not actually thin the blood. Furthermore, this type of medication will not dissolve clots that already have formed, although the drug stops an existing clot from worsening. However, another type of drug, used in thrombolytic therapy, will dissolve existing clots. Anticoagulant drugs are used for a number of conditions.

For example, they may be given to prevent blood clots from forming after the replacement of a heart valve or to reduce the risk of a stroke or another heart attack after a first heart attack. They are also used to reduce the chance of blood clots forming during open heart surgery or bypass surgery. Low doses of these drugs may be given to prevent blood clots in patients who must stay in bed for a long time after certain types of surgery.Because anticoagulants affect the bloods ability to clot, they can increase the risk of severe bleeding and heavy blood loss. It is thus essential to take these drugs exactly as directed and to see a physician regularly as long as they are prescribed.

Description:
Anticoagulant drugs, also called anticlotting drugs or blood thinners, are available only with a physicians prescription. They come in tablet and injectable forms. They fall into three groups:

• Inhibitors of clotting factor synthesis. These anticoagulants inhibit the production of certain clotting factors in the liver. One example is warfarin (brand name: coumadin).
  
  
• Inhibitors of thrombin. Thrombin inhibitors interfere with blood clotting by blocking the activity of thrombin. They include heparin, lepirudin (Refludan).
  
  
• Antiplatelet drugs. Antiplatelet drugs interact with platelets, which is a type of blood cell, to block platelets from aggregating into harmful clots. They include: aspirin, ticlopidine (Ticlid), clopidogrel (Plavix), tirofiban (Aggrastat), and eptifibatide (Integrilin).

Our Range:

• Warfarin

Antirheumatic:
Antirheumatic drugs are drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Antirheumatic agent: agent that relieves or prevents rheumatic disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is a crippling form of arthritis.

Purpose:

Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive form of arthritis that has devastating effects on joints and general health. It is classified as an auto-immune disease, because the disease is caused by the bodys own immune system acting against the body itself. Symptoms include painful, stiff, swollen joints, fever, fatigue, and loss of appetite.Denoting an agent which suppresses manifestations of rheumatic disease; usually applied to anti-inflammatory agents or agents that are capable of delaying progression of the basic disease process in inflammatory arthritis.

 

Antimicrobial:

A drug used to treat a microbial infection.

An antimicrobial is a substance that kills or inhibits the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Antimicrobial drugs either kill microbes (microbicidal) or prevent the growth of microbes (microbistatic) Antimicrobial is a general term that refers to a group of drugs that includes antibiotics, antifungals, antiprotozoals and antivirals.

Antimicrobial is a term given to any type of chemical compound that can aid in the death or suppress the growth of microorganisms (bacteria, yeast, mycoplasma, etc). Antimicrobial compounds work by damaging the machinery inside of cells that is required to keep them functioning. The actions of antimicrobials do not always kill all the microorganisms found in the environment that they are being used. Some microorganisms can possess DNA or genes that carry the information necessary to destroy, and/or inactivate the action of antimicrobials.

 

Use of Antimicrobials in Food Animals:

In addition to the treatment of sick animals to fight infections, antimicrobials are also used at sub therapeutic levels to prophylactally prevent infections and at sub therapeutic levels as feed additives to promote growth and weight gain by increasing feed utilization.The use of antimicrobial agents has increased dramatically in the past 50 years. Uses for humans include the treatment and prevention of infectious disease, and noninfectious applications, like acne. Antimicrobial agents are used extensively in the agricultural production of food animals for treatment and prevention of disease and the promotion of growth. In addition, bacterial diseases of plants are treated with antimicrobial agents, as are bacterial diseases affecting other food producers like honeybees and fish.  

 

Our Range:

• Leflunomide
• Nitrofurantoin