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'''Phenacemide''' (INN, BAN) (brand name '''Phenurone'''), also known as '''phenylacetylurea''', is an anticonvulsant of the ureide (acetylurea) class.<ref name="GanellinTriggle1996">{{cite book| vauthors = Ganellin CR, Triggle DJ |title=Dictionary of Pharmacological Agents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0THacd46ZsC&pg=PA1578|date=21 November 1996|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-46630-4|pages=1578–}}</ref> It is a congener and ring-opened analogue of phenytoin (a hydantoin),<ref name="UniversitiesPress2010">{{cite book | vauthors = Prasad JP | chapter = Central Nervous System |title=Conceptual Pharmacology| chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=s0e_FlM8LKYC&pg=PA236|year=2010|publisher=Universities Press|isbn=978-81-7371-679-9|pages=236–}}</ref><ref name="deStevensZingel2013">{{cite book | vauthors = Saxena AK, Saxena M | chapter = Developments in anticonvulsants | title = Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques | journal = Progress in Drug Research. Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung. Progres des Recherches Pharmaceutiques | veditors = deStevens G, Zingel V, Leschke C, Hoeprich P, Schultz R, Mehrotra P, Batra S, Bhaduri A, Saxena A, Saxena M | display-editors = 6 | volume = 44 | issue = | pages = 185–291 | date = 1995 | pmid = 7644666 | doi = 10.1007/978-3-0348-7161-7_6 | publisher=Birkhäuser| location=Basel |isbn=978-3-0348-7161-7 }}</ref> and is structurally related to the barbiturates and to other hydantoins.<ref name="Kadam2007">{{cite book| vauthors = Kadam SS, Mahadik KR, Bothara KG | chapter = Central Nervous System Depresants |title = Principles of Medicinal Chemistry | volume = II |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7Pb3lJuRksC&pg=PA147|date=1 July 2007|publisher=Pragati Books Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=978-81-85790-03-9|pages=147–}}</ref> Phenacemide was introduced in 1949 for the treatment of epilepsy, but was eventually withdrawn due to toxicity.<ref name="UniversitiesPress2010" /><ref name="deStevensZingel2013" />

== See also == * Pheneturide

== References == {{Reflist|2}}

== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{cite journal | vauthors = Coker SB | title = The use of phenacemide for intractable partial complex epilepsy in children | journal = Pediatric Neurology | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | pages = 230–232 | year = 1986 | pmid = 3508693 | doi = 10.1016/0887-8994(86)90053-6 }} * {{cite journal | vauthors = Coker SB, Holmes EW, Egel RT | title = Phenacemide therapy of complex partial epilepsy in children: determination of plasma drug concentrations | journal = Neurology | volume = 37 | issue = 12 | pages = 1861–1866 | date = December 1987 | pmid = 3683877 | doi = 10.1212/wnl.37.12.1861 | s2cid = 219205208 }} {{refend}}

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