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.
| Level | Code | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N | Nervous system | |
| 2 | N04 | Anti-parkinson drugs | |
| 3 | N04B | Dopaminergic agents | |
| 4 | N04BX | Other dopaminergic agents | |
| 5 | N04BX04 |
| Active Ingredient | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Opicapone |
Opicapone is a peripheral, selective and reversible catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitor endowed with a high binding affinity (sub-picomolar). Opicapone is indicated as adjunctive therapy to preparations of levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors (DDCI) in adult patients with Parkinson’s disease, leading to an increase of levodopa plasma levels thereby improving the clinical response to levodopa. |
| Title | Information Source | Document Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONGENTYS Hard capsule | European Medicines Agency (EU) | MPI, EU: SmPC | |
| ONTILYV Hard capsule | European Medicines Agency (EU) | MPI, EU: SmPC |
Note the following: The list of brand names is continuously updated, and thus does not include the total of products circulating worldwide.
