Anticonvulsant medication
Pharmaceutical compound
Carbamazepine , sold under the brand name Tegretol among others, is an anticonvulsant medication used in the treatment of epilepsy and neuropathic pain .[ 4] [ 1] It is used as an adjunctive treatment in schizophrenia along with other medications and as a second-line agent in bipolar disorder .[ 6] [ 1] Carbamazepine appears to work as well as phenytoin and valproate for focal and generalized seizures.[ 7] It is not effective for absence or myoclonic seizures .[ 1]
Carbamazepine was discovered in 1953 by Swiss chemist Walter Schindler.[ 8] [ 9] It was first marketed in 1962.[ 10] It is available as a generic medication .[ 11] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines .[ 12] In 2020, it was the 185th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 2 million prescriptions.[ 13] [ 14]
Photoswitchable analogues of carbamazepine have been developed to control its pharmacological activity locally and on demand using light (photopharmacology ), with the purpose of reducing the adverse systemic effects of the drug.[ 15] One of these light-regulated compounds (carbadiazocine, based on a bridged azobenzene or diazocine ) has been shown to produce analgesia with noninvasive illumination in vivo in a rat model of neuropathic pain .
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^ Nevitt SJ, Marson AG, Weston J, Tudur Smith C (August 2018). "Sodium valproate versus phenytoin monotherapy for epilepsy: an individual participant data review" . The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . 2018 (8): CD001769. doi :10.1002/14651858.CD001769.pub4 . PMC 6513104 . PMID 30091458 .
^ Nevitt SJ, Marson AG, Tudur Smith C (July 2019). "Carbamazepine versus phenytoin monotherapy for epilepsy: an individual participant data review" . The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews . 2019 (7): CD001911. doi :10.1002/14651858.CD001911.pub4 . PMC 6637502 . PMID 31318037 .
^ Smith HS (2009). Current therapy in pain . Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier. p. 460. ISBN 978-1-4160-4836-7 . Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
^ US patent 2948718 , Walter Schindler, "New n-heterocyclic compounds", published 1960-08-09, issued 1960-08-09, assigned to Geigy Chemical Corporation
^ Moshé S (2009). The treatment of epilepsy (3 ed.). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. p. xxix. ISBN 978-1-4443-1667-4 . Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
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^ Organization WH (2019). World Health Organization model list of essential medicines: 21st list 2019 . Geneva: World Health Organization . hdl :10665/325771 . WHO/MVP/EMP/IAU/2019.06. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
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^ Camerin L, Maleeva G, Gomila-Juaneda A, Suárez-Pereira I, Matera C, Prischich D, et al. (June 2024). "Photoswitchable carbamazepine analogs for non-invasive neuroinhibition in vivo" . Angewandte Chemie . 63 (38): e202403636. doi :10.1002/anie.202403636 . hdl :2445/215169 . PMID 38887153 .