Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular...

Neuromuscular-blocking drugs, or Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), block transmission at the neuromuscular junction, causing paralysis of the affected...

calcium (Ca2+ ) through calcium channels. Calcium channel blockers are used as antihypertensive drugs, i.e., as medications to decrease blood pressure in patients...

Cholinergic blocking drugs are a group of drugs that block the action of acetylcholine (ACh), a neurotransmitter, in synapses of the cholinergic nervous...

toothpaste that was first sold by Block Drug, a Brooklyn, New York-based company established in 1907 by pharmacist Alexander Block. By 1925, manufacturing dental...

Waltke Company. P&G sold the Lava brand to Block Drug in 1995. The WD-40 Company acquired the brand from Block Drug in April 1999. "Lava Heavy-Duty Hand Cleaning...

inventing Beano. Its patent was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline in 2001 from Block Drug. GlaxoSmithKline sold Beano and 16 other brands to Prestige Brands in...

prior alpha blocker therapy Myasthenia gravis, which may be worsened Other drugs with bradycardic effects Propranolol, like other beta-blockers, is classified...

administrative staff. GSK completed the acquisition of New Jersey–based Block Drug in 2001, for US$1.24 billion. In 2006, GSK acquired the US-based consumer...

blockers are inferior to other anti-hypertensive medications. Officially, beta blockers are not approved for anxiolytic use by the U.S. Food and Drug...

receptor blockers (ARBs), also called angiotensin (AT1) receptor antagonists or sartans, are a group of antihypertensive drugs that act by blocking the effects...

Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a 2017 American neo-noir prison action thriller film directed and written by S. Craig Zahler and starring Vince Vaughn with...

Places, and has become one of Chicago's most violent blocks, being the epicenter for crime, gang, and drug activity, and serving as a hub for the Black Disciples...

located on vascular smooth muscle. Antagonists reduce or block the signals of agonists. They can be drugs, which are added to the body for therapeutic reasons...

pharmaceutical drug, medicinal product, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy)...

A drug is any chemical substance other than a nutrient or an essential dietary ingredient, which, when administered to a living organism, produces a biological...

Sympatholytic drugs (drugs blocking the effects of the sympathetic nervous system): examples included bretylium and adrenergic beta-receptors blocking drugs. This...

Pollard CE (September 2011). "On the relationship between block of the cardiac Na⁺ channel and drug-induced prolongation of the QRS complex". British Journal...

been observed by using other members of the same drug class (non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs). The γ-cyclodextrin derivative sugammadex (trade...

types of drugs used include general anesthetics, local anesthetics, hypnotics, dissociatives, sedatives, adjuncts, neuromuscular-blocking drugs, narcotics...

Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral...

to a standing position the first time that an alpha blocker drug is used or when resuming the drug after many months off. This postural hypotension usually...

advertisements were withdrawn. Block Drug purchased Flushco, acquiring "2000 Flushes" toilet bowl cleaner in 1983. Block distributed multiple versions...

to be admitted on the return visit than people who had not received the drug. However, this effect may simply be due to the agent being used more frequently...

β-blockers. Below are some of the most common drugs used in the clinic. While there are limited clinical α-blocker uses, in which most α-blockers are...

used in marmalade) can interfere with drugs including etoposide, a chemotherapy drug, some beta blocker drugs used to treat high blood pressure, and...

A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, mind-altering drug, or consciousness-altering drug is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results...

drug that blocks or dampens a biological response by binding to and blocking a receptor rather than activating it like an agonist. Antagonist drugs interfere...

sumatriptan's efficacy in treating cluster headaches. The injectable form of the drug has been shown to abort a cluster headache within 30 minutes in 77% of cases...

(December 2005). "Pharmacology and drug interaction effects of the phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors: focus on alpha-blocker interactions". The American Journal...