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flu·phen·a·zine

 (flo͞o-fĕn′ə-zēn′)
n.
A phenothiazine drug, C22H26F3N3OS, used in its hydrochloride and decanoate forms to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

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fluphenazine

(fluːˈfɛnəˌziːn)
n
a powerful antipsychotic drug used to treat various psychoses including schizophrenia and extreme bipolar disorder
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Noun1.fluphenazine - tranquilizer used to treat psychotic disorders
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fluphenazine

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The result of bivariate analysis revealed that place of residence, duration of illness, duration of treatment, number of psychiatric hospitalisation days, history of active substance use, only injectable antipsychotic use (fluphenazine decanoate) and antipsychotic polypharmacy were factors significantly associated with non-adherence.
(32) described a 71-year-old white male who had received thioridazine followed by fluphenazine for several years and developed coffee-coloured left nipple discharge.
McMillin, "Simultaneous UPLC-MS/MS assay for the detection of the traditional antipsychotics haloperidol, fluphenazine, perphenazine, and thiothixene in serum and plasma," Clinica Chimica Acta, vol.
There, he was started on fluphenazine, a high-potency first generation antipsychotic, after a washout period of one week.
fluphenazine, haloperidol, levomepromazine, paliperidone, risperidone, thioridazine, valproate) (34).
[3] Many antipsychotics (both typical and atypical) like chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, haloperidol, trifluoperazine, amisulpride, olanzapine and risperidone have been implicated.
* Strong phenothiazine tranquilizers to increase gabaminergic activity (i.e., fluphenazine 0.05 to 0.1 mg);
Except for the determination of decomposition products of flurazepam dihydrochloride in various media at different temperatures by [sup.19]F NMR [26,27], to the best of our knowledge, no single study has been published where [sup.19]F NMR spectroscopy has been applied for the content determination of fluorinated pharmaceuticals spanning across many pharmacological classes including anticancer drugs (fludarabine and flucytosine), antipsychotic agents (fluphenazine), anxiolytics (fluoxetine), sedative hypnotics (flumazenil and flunitrazepam), antiandrogens (flutamide), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (flurbiprofen), antifungal agents (fluconazole and flucytosine), and glucocorticoids (fluprednidene and fluorometholone) (Figure 1).
There is rhabdomyolysis and muscle damage especially with the use of chlorpromazine and fluphenazine [10].
[15] which compared the effects of atypical antipsychotics clozapine, risperidone, quetiapine, and olanzapine and typical antipsychotics haloperidol and fluphenazine on glucose and lipid profile.