The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
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B | Blood and blood forming organs | |
2
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B06 | Other hematological agents | |
3
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B06A | Other hematological agents | |
4
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B06AC | Drugs used in hereditary angioedema | |
5
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B06AC08 |
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Sebetralstat is a competitive, reversible inhibitor of plasma kallikrein. Plasma kallikrein is a serine protease that cleaves high molecular weight kininogen (HK) releasing bradykinin which increases vascular permeability through activation of bradykinin receptors causing edema. Sebetralstat inhibits the cleavage of HK and reduces production of bradykinin, thereby treating the clinical symptoms of an acute, episodic attack of HAE. Sebetralstat also inhibits the positive feedback mechanism of the kallikrein kinin system by plasma kallikrein, thereby reducing factor XIIa and additional plasma kallikrein generation. |