PURINETHOL

This brand name is authorized in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Tunisia, Turkey

Active ingredients

The drug PURINETHOL contains one active pharmaceutical ingredient (API):

1 Mercaptopurine UNII E7WED276I5 - MERCAPTOPURINE

Mercaptopurine is an inactive pro-drug which acts as a purine antagonist but requires cellular uptake and intracellular anabolism to thioguanine nucleotides for cytotoxicity. The mercaptopurine metabolites inhibit de novo purine synthesis and purine nucleotide interconversions. The thioguanine nucleotides are also incorporated into nucleic acids and this contributes to the cytotoxic effects of the active substance. Read about Mercaptopurine

Medicine classification

This drug has been classified in the anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification system as follows:

ATC code	Group title	Classification
L01BB02	Mercaptopurine	L Antineoplastic and immunomodulating agents → L01 Antineoplastic agents → L01B Antimetabolites → L01BB Purine analogues
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Authorization and marketing

This drug has been assigned below unique identifiers within the countries it is being marketed:

Country	Identification scheme	Identifier(s)
Country: AU	Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme	Identifier(s): 1598D
Country: BR	Câmara de Regulação do Mercado de Medicamentos	Identifier(s): 505613040037614
Country: CA	Health Products and Food Branch	Identifier(s): 00004723
Country: FR	Base de données publique des médicaments	Identifier(s): 63377491
Country: MX	Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios	Identifier(s): 50519
Country: TN	Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament	Identifier(s): 15493011
Country: TR	İlaç ve Tıbbi Cihaz Kurumu	Identifier(s): 8699874080076