PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - , TI - Taractan AID - 10.1136/dtb.s1-1.15.57 DP - 1962 Nov 02 TA - The British Edition of the Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics PG - 57--58 VI - s1-1 IP - 15 4099 - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/s1-1/15/57.short 4100 - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/s1-1/15/57.full AB - Chlorprothixene (Taractan - Roche) is a new psychotropic drug whose structure differs slightly from that of the phenothiazines. There is no striking pharmacological difference between it and chlorpromazine and other phenothiazines: it produces sedation and hypothermia, antagonises histamine, acetylcholine and adrenaline, and shows antiemetic activity.