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Mepacrine is another name for quinacrine

Mepacrine, also called quinacrine or by the trade name Atabrine, is a medication with several uses. It is related to chloroquine and mefloquine. Although formerly available from compounding pharmacies, as of August 2020 it is unavailable in the United States.[1]

Mepacrine is also used off-label for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus,[3] indicated in the treatment of discoid and subcutaneous lupus erythematosus, particularly in patients unable to take chloroquine derivatives.[2]

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Antiprotozoal
Mepacrine was initially approved in the 1930s as an antimalarial drug. It was used extensively during the second World War by Allied forces fighting in North Africa and the Far East to prevent malaria.[5]


Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Mepacrine has been shown to bind to the prion protein and prevent the formation of prion aggregates in vitro,[8] and full clinical trials of its use as a treatment for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease are under way in the United Kingdom and the United States.



And last but not least, here is another use for

Mepacrine (quinacrine )


Non-surgical sterilization for women
The use of mepacrine for non-surgical sterilization for women has also been studied. The first report of this method claimed a first year failure rate of 3.1%.[14] However, despite a multitude of clinical studies on the use of mepacrine and female sterilization, no randomized, controlled trials have been reported to date and there is some controversy over its use.[2]