Quinacrine

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O. countable, uncountable

    "‘He said the poor man must be suffering from malaria, and the next day he bought him a tube of quinacrine.’"

  2. 2
    a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria wordnet

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atabrinemepacrineatabrineatebrinechinacrinchinacrine

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"The researchers are from the University of California at San Francisco. They say their research shows that two drugs can clear the infectious proteins from mouse brain cells. The drugs are quinacrine and chlorpromazine. Quinacrine was used in the Nineteen-Forties to treat malaria. Chlorpromazine is used to treat the mental disorder schizophrenia. Quinacrine appears to be more effective in stopping the deadly protein activity. However, chlorpromazine crosses more easily into the brain."

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