Obstetric drugs

List of obstetric drugs

• aglepristone
• atosiban
• carbetocin
• carboprost
• carboprost methyl
• carboprost trometamol
• demoxytocin
• dinoprost
• dinoprost trometamol
• dinoprostone
• ergometrine maleate
• ergot - a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid; a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus
• ergotoxine
• gemeprost
• meteneprost
• methylergometrine maleate
• mifepristone - an abortion inducing drug (trade name ru_486) developed in france; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo
• misoprostol
• oxytocin - hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk
• prolactin - gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition
• ritodrine hydrochloride
• sulprostone