metformin

Details

Instance of

type of chemical entity

Subclass of

biguanide

Part of

response to metformin

Has parts

nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen

active ingredient in

Glucophage, Riomet, Fortamet, Glumetza

canonical SMILES

CN(C)C(=N)N=C(N)N

catalog

World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines

chemical formula

C₄H₁₁N₅

defined daily dose

2.0

found in taxon

Morus alba

has use

medication

isomeric SMILES

[H]/N=C(/N)\N/C(=N\[H])/N(C)C

legal status (medicine)

boxed warning

mass

129.101445

medical condition treated

maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 2, hyperglycemia, diabetes

physically interacts with

Protein kinase AMP-activated non-catalytic subunit beta 1, Solute carrier family 22 member 2, Solute carrier family 22 member 3, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit C1, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase complex assembly factor 4, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit V3, NADH dehydrogenase, subunit 1 (complex I), NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit A1, NDUFA4 mitochondrial complex associated, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit B7, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit AB1, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit S1

pregnancy category

Australian pregnancy category C, US pregnancy category B

stylized name

metFORMIN

subject has role

anti-diabetic medication, essential medicine

World Health Organisation international non-proprietary name

metformin

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