Insulin glulisine

Active ingredient description

Insulin glulisine is a recombinant human insulin analogue that is equipotent to regular human insulin. Insulin glulisine has a more rapid onset of action and a shorter duration of action than regular human insulin.

Medicine classification

This medicinal substance has been classified in the anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification according to its main therapeutic use as follows:

ATC code Group title Classification
A10AB06 Insulin glulisine A Alimentary tract and metabolism → A10 Drugs used in diabetes → A10A Insulins and analogues → A10AB Insulins and analogues for injection, fast-acting
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Product monographs

Competent medicine agencies globally have authorized commercialization of this active ingredient according to these medication package inserts (MPIs):

Title Information Source Document Type  
APIDRA Solution for injection European Medicines Agency (EU) MPI, EU: SmPC

External identifiers

CAS Substance: 207748-29-6
DrugBank Drug: DB01309
KEGG Drug: D04540
RxNorm Ingredient: 400008
SNOMED-CT Concept: 411530000
Insulin glulisine (substance)
UNII Identifier: 7XIY785AZD
INSULIN GLULISINE

Medicines

Insulin glulisine is an active ingredient of these brands:

United States (US)

Australia (AU)

Austria (AT)

Brazil (BR)

Canada (CA)

Croatia (HR)

Cyprus (CY)

Ecuador (EC)

Estonia (EE)

Finland (FI)

France (FR)

Hong Kong (HK)

Ireland (IE)

Israel (IL)

Japan (JP)

Lithuania (LT)

Netherlands (NL)

New Zealand (NZ)

Poland (PL)

Romania (RO)

Singapore (SG)

South Africa (ZA)

Spain (ES)

Tunisia (TN)

Turkey (TR)

United Kingdom (UK)

Note the following: The list of brand names is continuously updated, and thus does not include the total of products circulating worldwide.

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