Synonyms: Carbocaine® | mepivacaine hydrochloride | Polocaine®
mepivacaine is an approved drug (FDA (1960))
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: Mepivacaine is an amide class local anesthetic. It is a racemic mixture of enantiomers. We show the chemical structure without specified stereochemistry to represent the mixture.
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Bioactivity Comments |
Due to the complex and varied nature of the precise subunit composition of sodium channels receptors, and a paucity of affinity data with definitive molecular details, we have not tagged a primary target for this drug. |