Ranitidine was also the result of a rational drug design process utilising the by-then-fairly-refined model of the histamine H < sub > 2 </ sub > receptor and quantitative structure-activity relationships ( QSAR ).

Ranitidine was found to have a far-improved tolerability profile ( i. e. fewer adverse drug reactions ), longer-lasting action, and ten times the activity of cimetidine.

Ranitidine was introduced in 1981 and was the world's biggest-selling prescription drug by 1988.

Ranitidine and famotidine are available over the counter at pharmacies, both as brand-name drugs and as generics, and work by decreasing the amount of acid the stomach produces allowing healing of ulcers.

The H2 antagonist Ranitidine is prescribed by some urologists for patients with interstitial cystitis.

Ranitidine and famotidine, which are both H2 antagonists, provide relief of peptic ulcers, heartburn, indigestion and excess stomach acid and prevention of these symptoms associated with excessive consumption of food and drink.

Ranitidine is not as potent a CYP inhibitor as cimetidine, although it still shares several of the latter's interactions ( such as with warfarin, theophylline, phenytoin, metoprolol, and midazolam ).

* Nobel Prize winner, Sir James Black, whose work is behind the drug Ranitidine.

Ranitidine has been proven in studies to significantly increase blood alcohol content levels.

The various services all took on a common interface device, an " i-bar " branded with the BBCi logo, which sought to emphasise the brand across different technologies by providing similar navigation.

A group of pharmacologically active compounds are extracted mostly from the leaves of the second year's growth, and in pure form are referred to by common chemical names, such as digitoxin or digoxin, or by brand names such as Crystodigin and Lanoxin, respectively.

Availability-Currently there are 20 medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the use of treatment of epileptic seizures in the US: carbamazepine ( common US brand name Tegretol ), clorazepate ( Tranxene ), clonazepam ( Klonopin ), ethosuximide ( Zarontin ), felbamate ( Felbatol ), fosphenytoin ( Cerebyx ), gabapentin ( Neurontin ), lacosamide ( Vimpat ), lamotrigine ( Lamictal ), levetiracetam ( Keppra ), oxcarbazepine ( Trileptal ), phenobarbital ( Luminal ), phenytoin ( Dilantin ), pregabalin ( Lyrica ), primidone ( Mysoline ), tiagabine ( Gabitril ), topiramate ( Topamax ), valproate semisodium ( Depakote ), valproic acid ( Depakene ), and zonisamide ( Zonegran ).

* The use of a common name or brand or any other intellectual property right and a uniform presentation of the premises or the transport means included in the agreement.

The most common, one of the most effective with hydrocodone, and safest is hydroxyzine ( often marketed under the brand name Vistaril ).

It is quite common in casino poker rooms for dealers to use this method upon introducing a brand new deck, which are packaged in ranked order by suits, before shuffling it by some other means ( i. e., a riffle shuffle or shuffling machine ).

The first combined map was published in 1908 by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies using the " Underground " brand as part of a common advertising initiative.

The next most common form is the conical sheet metal whistle with a wooden stop in the wide end to form the fipple, the Clarke's brand being the most prevalent.

The term is not used in all countries, and outside North America the terms " off-road vehicle ", " four-wheel drive " or " four-by-four " ( abbreviated to " 4WD " or " 4x4 ") or simply use of the brand name to describe the vehicle like " Jeep " or " Land Rover " are more common.

At the level of mass communication and in common usage a company's logo is today often synonymous with its trademark or brand.

High Life has enjoyed a resurgence recently, using its humorous " Take Back the High Life " campaign — which features a common sense-wielding deliveryman ( portrayed by Windell Middlebrooks ) removing beer from " non-High Life locations " ( such as restaurants serving $ 11. 50 hamburgers ) to position the brand as " a good honest beer at a tasty price ".

At that time it was common for houses to use animal symbols instead of numbers, and the new factory featured a salmon () on the façade ; hence the naming of the brand " Der Lachs zu Danzig ".

They did not share common branding, however, although stations were sometimes indicated as being part of the " CanWest Global System " as a secondary brand.

The Mott's brand " Rose's ", by far the most common grenadine brand in the United States, is presently formulated using ( in order of concentration ): high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate, FD & C Red # 40, natural and artificial flavors, and FD & C Blue # 1.

Typically, a topical anesthetic, most often xylocaine gel ( common brand names are Anestacon and Instillagel ) is employed.

A common example of a sunk cost for a business is the promotion of a brand name.

On the Special Self-Governing Province of Jeju-do, Hallasan Soju is the most common brand, being named after the island's main mountain Mt.

The Global Hypercolour brand of these was a common sight on the streets of the UK for a few years, but has since mostly disappeared.

Hungry Jack's is now the only Burger King brand in Australia ; Cowin's company Hungry Jack's PTY is the master franchise and thus is now responsible for oversight of the operations that country with Burger King only providing administrative and advertising support to ensure a common marketing scheme for the company and its products.

In 2008 the Railion brand was replaced with the rebranding of the whole DB logistics organisation into a common recognisable brand ; named DB Schenker.

For example Empower is backed by Contact Energy, Powershop is owned by Meridian Energy, Bosco Connect is a brand owned by Mighty River Power, Energy Online is owned by Genesis Energy, Mercury Energy is owned by the generator Mighty River Power, and Nova Energy and Bay of Plenty Energy have common ownership.

The socialism that Kita espoused in his early period was a nationalist brand of socialism ( or right-wing Romantic anti-capitalism ) that had nothing in common with any Marxian notions of " socialism from below ".

It now has common derivations such as the " flagship brand " or " flagship product " of a manufacturing company or " flagship store " of a retail chain.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

A more or less typical monocotyledon, the species can be recognized by its shortly branched inflorescence covered with branched hairs ( giving rise to the common name of Lamb's-tail ).

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

Category: Boinae by common name

At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

The last whorl ( known as the body whorl ) is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name " ear shell ".

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

This is one of numerous genera with the common name " lily " due to their flower shape and growth habit.

The common name " naked lady " stems from the plant's pattern of flowering when the foliage has died down.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.