ANDAORALCAPSULE
Approved
Dec 2018
Lifecycle
Post-LOE
Competitive Pressure
30/100
Clinical Trials
1
Mechanism of Action
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY The in vivo synthesis of the major biologically active metabolites of vitamin D occurs in two steps. The first hydroxylation of ergocalciferol takes place in the liver (to 25-hydroxyvitamin D) and the second in the kidneys (to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D). Vitamin D metabolites…
Pharmacologic Class:
Provitamin D2 Compound
Clinical Trials (1)
A Study of Oral Ergocalciferol to Treat Pruritis in Hemodialysis Patients
Started Jul 2010
50 enrolled
Pruritis