Hey all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist Eric Christensen.

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And I think that's going to be it for announcements today here.

So let's get into the drug.

Prochlorparazine is a medication brand name compazine.

I've also heard Compro used before as well in clinical practice.

And this is a bit of a complex medication, at least as far as a mechanism of action perspective

goes. So this drug is classified as an anti-medic also can be classified as an antipsychotic.

Now, I won't say that it's never used as an antipsychotic, but in, you know, 10 years approximately of clinical practice, I have never seen this medication used as an antipsychotic.

So there may be a patient out there somewhere, but again, this medication is primarily used for its anti-emetic, anti-nausea type purposes.

Now that mechanism of action.

So we've got some dopamine blocking activity at the D1 and D2 receptors.

And because of that dopamine blocking activity, that is kind of the classic mechanism of antipsychotics.

However, dopamine is an important molecule within the brain in the chemoreceptor zone.

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