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I'm your host pharmacist Derek Christensen.

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All right, the drug of the day today is Guan Fasine.

Brand name of this medication is 10X.

Other brand name medication you might see is intiniv.

This drug, its mechanism of action, is an alpha 2A receptor agonist, and it primarily works

in the central nervous system, and it reduces sympathetic outflow.

So remember, when you hear sympathetic,

that means the fight or flight response, right?

Where we've got an increase in blood pressure, heart rate,

things of that nature.

So this drug is going to reduce that,

and it does it by ultimately kind of reducing the effects

of noraphenephrine.

So that's going to lead to a reduction in vasoconstriction, which could lead to lower blood

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