Formaldehyde 0.75% gel
A highly reactive aldehyde gas formed by oxidation or incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.
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Therapeutically similar medicines
Similarity based on WHO Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification and NHS BNF section grouping. Source data: NHS dm+d via TRUD (OGL v3.0), WHO ATC/DDD Index.
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Clinical guidelines and formulary information
British National Formulary
Formaldehyde
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NICE clinical guidance(2)
Indoor air quality at home (NG149)
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Key facts
Drug status
Approved
Major interactions
None known
Half-life
Not available
Mechanism
Not available
Food interactions
None known
Human targets
2 targets
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Pharmacokinetics at a glance
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Proteins and enzymes this drug interacts with in the body
PMID:17259981 PMID:21195050 PMID:21873995 PMID:23199233 PMID:25389312 PMID:33152265
Has a relatively high Ca(2+) selectivity, with a preference for divalent over monovalent cations (Ca(2+) > Ba(2+) > Mg(2+) > NH4(+) > Li(+) > K(+)), the influx of cation into the cytoplasm leads to membrane depolarization .
PMID:19202543 PMID:21195050
Has a central role in the pain response to endogenous inflammatory mediators, such as bradykinin and to a diverse array of irritants. Activated by a large variety of structurally unrelated electrophilic and non-electrophilic chemical compounds, such as allylthiocyanate (AITC) from mustard oil or wasabi, cinnamaldehyde, diallyl disulfide (DADS) from garlic, and acrolein, an environmental irritant .
PMID:20547126 PMID:25389312 PMID:27241698 PMID:30878828
Electrophilic ligands activate TRPA1 by interacting with critical N-terminal Cys residues in a covalent manner .
PMID:17164327 PMID:27241698 PMID:31866091 PMID:32641835
Non-electrophile agonists bind at distinct sites in the transmembrane domain to promote channel activation .
PMID:33152265
Also acts as an ionotropic cannabinoid receptor by being activated by delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive component of marijuana .
PMID:25389312
May be a component for the mechanosensitive transduction channel of hair cells in inner ear, thereby participating in the perception of sounds (By similarity)
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Chemical identifiers
CAS, UNII, InChI Key and database cross-references
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Chemical identifiers
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Linked compound data from DrugBank Open Data (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Formaldehyde
Additional database identifiers
Drugs Product Database (DPD)
6970
Drugs Product Database (DPD)
6103
ChemSpider
692
PDB
FOR
Guide to Pharmacology
4196
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)
HGNC:497
GenAtlas
TRPA1
GeneCards
TRPA1
GenBank Gene Database
Y10601
GenBank Protein Database
3287188
Guide to Pharmacology
485
UniProt Accession
TRPA1_HUMAN
GenBank Gene Database
X05109
GenBank Protein Database
515050
UniProt Accession
DAC_STRSR
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