Talk:Trazodone
| Summary sheet: Trazodone |
| Trazodone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Common names | Trazodone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substitutive name | Desyrel, Molipaxin, Oleptro, Trazorel, Trittico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Psychoactive class | Sedative, Antidepressant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemical class | Triazolopyridine, phenylpiperazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trazodone, first sold as Oleptro, is an antidepresant of the serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor (SARI) class, approved as a prescription medicine for major depressive disorder in adults. Trazodone produces meta-Chlorophenylpiperazine ("chlorophenylpiperazine") as an active metabolite; it contributes to trazodone's pharmacology. [1]
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- ↑ 1-m-Chlorophenylpiperazine is an active metabolite common to the psychotropic drugs trazodone, etoperidone and mepiprazole | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2042-7158.1982.tb04701.x/abstract;jsessionid=9006CB66248FC2F30E99D5AEAB847661.f04t01