Obstetric drugs
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List of obstetric drugs
- aglepristone
- atosiban
- carbetocin
- carboprost
- carboprost methyl
- carboprost trometamol
- demoxytocin
- dinoprost
- dinoprost trometamol
- dinoprostone
- ergometrine maleate
- ergot - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid; a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
- ergotoxine
- gemeprost
- meteneprost
- methylergometrine maleate
- mifepristone - an abortion inducing drug (trade name ru_486) developed in france; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo
- misoprostol
- oxytocin - hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk
- prolactin - gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition
- ritodrine hydrochloride
- sulprostone
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