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Thiothixene (sold as Navane) is a thioxanthene
Thioxanthene

Thioxanthene is a molecule in which the oxygen atom in xanthene is replaced with a sulfur atom. Various thioxanthene derivatives are used in the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis....
 drug
Medication

A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as medicine or medicament, can be loosely defined as any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease....
 used as a typical antipsychotic
Typical antipsychotic

Typical antipsychotics are a class of antipsychotic drugs first developed in the 1950s and used to treat psychosis , and are generally being replaced by atypical antipsychotic drugs....
 medication. It is a thioxanthene derivative and is the cis isomer
Isomer

In chemistry, isomers are compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae. Isomers do not necessarily share similar properties unless they also have the same functional groups....
 of N,Ndimethyl- 9-[3-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-propylidene] thioxanthene-2-sulfonamide.

Navane is a first generation of antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics. Drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have more recently been developed.






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Thiothixene (sold as Navane) is a thioxanthene
Thioxanthene

Thioxanthene is a molecule in which the oxygen atom in xanthene is replaced with a sulfur atom. Various thioxanthene derivatives are used in the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis....
 drug
Medication

A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as medicine or medicament, can be loosely defined as any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease....
 used as a typical antipsychotic
Typical antipsychotic

Typical antipsychotics are a class of antipsychotic drugs first developed in the 1950s and used to treat psychosis , and are generally being replaced by atypical antipsychotic drugs....
 medication. It is a thioxanthene derivative and is the cis isomer
Isomer

In chemistry, isomers are compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae. Isomers do not necessarily share similar properties unless they also have the same functional groups....
 of N,Ndimethyl- 9-[3-(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)-propylidene] thioxanthene-2-sulfonamide.

Navane is a first generation of antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics. Drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have more recently been developed. Both classes of medication tend to block receptors in the brain's dopamine pathways, but antipsychotic drugs encompass a wide range of receptor specificity.