NOUN
- a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria
How To Use quinacrine In A Sentence
- The Medical Research Council, which will oversee the trials, said national guidelines for studies of the antimalarial drug quinacrine will probably be agreed next month.
- Quinacrine (mepacrine) (familiar brand name; Atabrine) Chapter 31
- If standard therapeutic regimens fail because of immunodeficiency or other issues, combinations of metronidazole and quinacrine can be administered for three weeks.
- Hydroxychloroquine is the most widely used; its effectiveness was studied in combination with quinacrine, another antimalarial drug.
- The authors say, ‘We find it almost inconceivable that a rational patient with suspected prion disease would be in equipoise… between quinacrine and placebo.’
- The drugs are quinacrine, used to treat malaria and the tropical parasite infection giardiasis, and chlorpromazine, which is given to patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions.
- Quinacrine is a planar tricyclic compound with structural similarities to DMMB, yet it does not absorb red light.
