isoniazid in English

noun
1
a synthetic compound used as a bacteriostatic drug, chiefly to treat tuberculosis.
Even the addition of a bactericidal drug streptomycin to isoniazid only resulted in a marginal increase to 49 per cent.

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1. Isoniazid is also associated with increased excretion of pyridoxine.

2. Stunted growth is shown in the presence of isoniazid, rifampicin, and few other drugs.

3. There are also probes available for isoniazid-resistance (katG and mabA-inhA), but these are less widely available.

4. In 1952, learning of the stimulating side effects of isoniazid, the Cincinnati psychiatrist Max Lurie tried it on his patients.

5. All first-line anti-tuberculous drug names have semistandardized three-letter and single-letter abbreviations: ethambutol is EMB or E, isoniazid is INH or H, pyrazinamide is PZA or Z, rifampicin is RMP or R, streptomycin is SM or S. First-line anti-tuberculous drug names are often remembered with the mnemonic "RIPE," referring to the use of a rifamycin (like rifampin), isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol.

6. Bupropion increases monoamine neurotransmitter levels (dopamine and norepinephrine) through reuptake inhibition and isoniazid is a weak inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO), an enzyme system which contributes to the degradation of monoamine neurotransmitters

7. Alpha-tocopherol shows broad-spectrum anti-microbial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, against the Rifampicin-resistant, Isoniazid-resistant and multi-drugresistant strains of M tuberculosis, against Pseudomonas, against Staphylococci and against Escherichia coli.

8. "Current standard therapy is isoniazid (INH) which reduce the risk of active TB by as much as 90 per cent (in patients with positive LTBI test results and fibrotic pulmonary lesions compatible with tuberculosis) if taken daily for 9 months."

9. Substances that may reduce the blood-glucose-lowering effect include corticosteroids, danazol, diazoxide, diuretics, glucagon, isoniazid, oestrogens and progestogens (e. g. in oral contraceptives), phenothiazine derivatives, somatropin, sympathomimetic agents (e. g. epinephrine [ adrenaline ], salbutamol, terbutaline), thyroid hormones, protease inhibitors and atypical antipsychotic medicinal products (e. g. olanzapine and clozapine

10. : an organism that Acetylates a substance during metabolism — used especially to describe the rate at which a person Acetylates certain drugs (such as isoniazid, hydralazine, or sulfamethazine) in the body People known as slow acetylators, for instance, take a longer time than fast acetylators to clear certain drugs from the liver.