Classification of drugs used in DIABETES
The drugs for diabetes are classified as :
●INSULIN:
1. RAPID ACTING INSULINS-
→INSULIN LISPRO
→INSULIN ASPART
2. SHORT ACTING INSULINS
→REGULAR NOVOLIN R
→REGULAR HUMULIN R
3. INTERMEDIATE ACTING INSULINS
→NPH HUMULIN N
→NPH NOVOLIN N
→PREMIXED INSULINS
→NOVOLIN 70\30
→HUMULIN 70\30 AND 50\50
→MIXED INSULINS
→MOVOMIX 30
→HUMALOG MIX 25
4. LONG ACTING INSULIN
→INSULIN DETEMIR
→INSULIN GLARGINE
●ORAL HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS
SULPHONYLUREAS for diabetics:
1. 1ST GENERATION sulphonyl ureas:
→TOLBUTAMIDE
→CHLORPROPAMIDE
2. 2ND GENERATION sulphonyl ureas
→GLIPIZIDE
→GLIMEPIRIDES
→MEGLITINIDES
→REPAGLINIDE
●ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITORS and diabetes
→ACRBOSE
→MIGLITOL
→D-PHENYLALANINE
●DERIVATIVE and diabetes
→NATEGLINIDE
→BIGUANIDES
→METFORMIN
→BUFORMIN
●THIAZOLIDINIEDIAONE DERIVATIVE
→ROSIGLITAZONE
→PIOGLITA
●GIT HORMONES{GLUCAGON
→PEPTIDE 1(GLIP-1)}
→EXENATIDE
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Any drug that is used to treat diabetes mellitus, reduces unusually elevated glucose sugar levels in the blood which is termed as an oral antidiabetic agents .
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