Phenothiazines
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Phenothiazines have tranquilising, sedative and anxiolytic properties, but do NOT provide analgesia. As well as these effects on the CNS, phenothiazines also affect the cardiovascular system and the gastrointestinal tract (see Side Effects and Contraindications).
Drugs in this Group
Phenothiazines include:
- Acepromazine
- Proprionylpromazine
- Chlorpromazine
- Promazine
- Methotrimeprazine
- Promethazine
Acepromazine
=Methotrimeprazine
Methotrimeprazine has potent analsgesis as well as tranquilising, sedatice and anxiolytic actions. It si a component of small animal immobilon, along with etorphine.