Tribenoside (Glyvenol) is a

vasoprotective A vasoprotective is a medication which acts to alleviate or prevent conditions or diseases which affect the blood vessels. The term is used in the World Health Organization's Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System to encompass therap ...

drug used to treat

hemorrhoid Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal. In their normal state, they are cushions that help with stool control. They become a disease when swollen or inflamed; the unqualified term ''hemo ...

s. It has mild anti-inflammatory,

analgesic An analgesic drug, also called simply an analgesic (American English), analgaesic (British English), pain reliever, or painkiller, is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve relief from pain (that is, analgesia or pain management). It ...

, and wound healing properties. Tribenoside stimulates laminin α5 production and laminin-332 deposition to help repair the

basement membrane The basement membrane is a thin, pliable sheet-like type of extracellular matrix that provides cell and tissue support and acts as a platform for complex signalling. The basement membrane sits between Epithelium, epithelial tissues including mesot ...

during the wound healing process. It is a mixture of the α- and β-

anomer In carbohydrate chemistry, a pair of anomers () is a pair of near-identical stereoisomers that differ at only the anomeric carbon, the carbon that bears the aldehyde or ketone functional group in the sugar's open-chain form. However, in order fo ...

s. Tribenoside has been shown to induce drug hypersensitivity syndrome in association with CMV reactivation.

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