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Scientists Create an Effective Analgesic Without Side Effects

posted by martyb on Monday October 17 2016, @09:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-pain-no-gain? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Scientists at the Institute for Problems of Chemical and Energetic Technologies (IPCET) and collaborators have developed tiovyurtsin, a generic drug for the treatment of pain. The new analgesic lacks the side effects typical of steroid and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

"As a raw material for the new drug, we used glyoxal—a substance for which the industrial technology of synthesis was developed by chemists at Tomsk State University," said Sergey Sysolyatin, the director of the IPCET SB RAS (a graduate of TSU's Faculty of Chemistry). "High-energy compounds are also based on glyoxal. At the intermediate stage of synthesis, we are withdrawing a small portion of the substance, modifying it, and then obtaining a drug with excellent pharmacological characteristics."

Preclinical tests carried out at the ED Goldberg Research Institute of Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine (Tomsk) showed that the new analgesic suppresses pain symptoms of various etiologies and has a longer period of effectiveness than other painkillers, with no toxic effects on the body.

This appears to be an update on research reported in January 2016 in Medical Express: New drug could be safer, non-addictive alternative to morphine, which references an abstract appearing in the journal: Neuropharmacology DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2015.12.024

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  • (Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday October 17 2016, @10:53PM

    by Ellis D. Tripp (3416) on Monday October 17 2016, @10:53PM (#415453)

    Googling the alleged name of this substance produces nothing. Not even the phys.org piece....

    Would like to hear Derek Lowe's comments on this one....

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  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday October 17 2016, @11:03PM

    by Ellis D. Tripp (3416) on Monday October 17 2016, @11:03PM (#415456)

    Still would like Derek's take...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @12:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @12:09AM (#415467)

      Wait more than 10 mins? He may be on the can