What is "teniloxazine"

n. An antidepressant drug.

Teniloxazine (Lucelan, Metatone), also known as sufoxazine/sulfoxazine, is a drug which is marketed in Japan. Though initially investigated as a neuroprotective and nootropic agent for the treatment of cerebrovascular insufficiency in the 1980s, it was ultimately developed and approved as an antidepressant instead. It acts as a potent norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, with fair selectivity over the serotonin and dopamine transporters, and also behaves as an antagonist at the 5-HT receptor.