Cyproheptadine, therapeutic

There was therapeutic benefit from cyproheptadine in a case of serotonin syndrome in a 2-year-old girl who accidentally swallowed ten 50 mg tablets of sertraline (7). 

Watemberg NM, Roth KS, Alehan FK, Epstein CE. Central anticholinergic syndrome on therapeutic doses of cyproheptadine. Pediatrics 1999 103(l) 158-60. 

Sperber PA. Cyproheptadine-dexamethasone combination in the treatment. Current Therapeutic Research 1962 4 70-73. 

Cyproheptadine can compete with binding sites and limit the therapeutic effeas. 

Mao et al. identified the off-patented drugs clioquinol [104] and cyproheptadine [105] as potential therapeutics for both myeloma and leukemia. 

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