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Also known as alpha-mercaptopropionylglycine, alpha-MPG, Tiopronine, α-MPG

Tiopronin, sold under the brand name Thiola, is a medication used to control the rate of cystine precipitation and excretion in the disease cystinuria.

Key facts

Drug.tradename
Thiola
Drug.DailyMedID
Tiopronin
Drug.DrugBank
DB06823
Drug.ChEBI
32229

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Tiopronin, sold under the brand name Thiola, is a medication used to control the rate of cystine precipitation and excretion in the disease cystinuria.

It is available as a generic medication.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tiopronin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.