Vitamin B1 analogue
Vitamin B1 analogues are analogues of vitamin B1, thiamine. They typically have improved bioavailability relative to thiamine itself, and are used to treat conditions caused by vitamin B1 deficiency. These conditions include beriberi, Korsakoff's syndrome, Wernicke's encephalopathy and diabetic neuropathy.
List of vitamin B1 analogues
Vitamin B1 analogues include:[1]
- Acefurtiamine
- Acetiamine
- Allithiamine
- Beclotiamine
- Benfotiamine
- Bentiamine
- Bisbentiamine
- Cetotiamine
- Cycotiamine
- Fursultiamine
- Monophosphothiamine
- Octotiamine
- Prosultiamine
- Sulbutiamine
- Vintiamol
See also
- B vitamins
- Thiamine pyrophosphate, a thiamine derivative
References
- ↑ William Martindale; Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1993). The Extra Pharmacopoeia. Pharmaceutical Press. p. 1053. ISBN 978-0-85369-300-0.
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