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Carbocisteine

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Carbocisteine
Clinical data
ATC code
Identifiers
  • 2-amino-3-(carboxymethylsulfanyl)propanoic acid
CAS Number
PubChem CID
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
ECHA InfoCard100.010.298 Edit this at Wikidata
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC5H9NO4S
Molar mass179.195 g/mol g·mol−1

Carbocisteine is a mucolytic that can be used to help relieve the symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder COPD and bronchiectasis by allowing the sufferer to bring up sputum more easily. For these indications, it is available under the trade name Mucodyne (Beacon Pharmaceuticals). Other trade names include Solmux (Westmont Unilab, Philippines), Rhinathiol (Sanofi-Aventis, France), Humex (Urgo Laboratories, France), Fluditec (Innotech, Latvia), Exputex (Shire plc, UK), Mucolit (CTS, Israel) Reodyn (Orion Pharma, Finland) and Carbolin (carbocisteine BP 375mg,SK+F, Bangladesh)

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