How to Use clozapine in a Sentence

clozapine

noun
  • When nothing else has worked, clozapine can, sometimes, give a person back to themselves.
    — Nitin Gogtay, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The goal was to catch the small number of patients in whom clozapine can sharply reduce the white cells that fight infection.
    — Nitin Gogtay, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
  • And, in children with childhood-onset schizophrenia, clozapine.
    — Nitin Gogtay, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The cost of our avoidance of clozapine is invisible but enormous, measured in people who stay sick, and in lives that end early, for want of a drug already sitting on the shelf.
    — Nitin Gogtay, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Thus, the use of clozapine is associated with close medical monitoring for some patients, in the form of blood tests to measure the absolute neutrophil count.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Another example is clozapine, a drug used to suppress delusions experienced by people with schizophrenia.
    — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
  • For example, since other drugs for schizophrenia do not carry the serious risks that clozapine does, clinicians usually reserve that medicine for people who could not use those other drugs.
    — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
  • With more widespread use, however, a rare, life-threatening side effect known as agranulocytosis (a severe reduction in white blood cells) emerged, prompting clozapine’s withdrawal from the market.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Over time these requirements loosened, and in 2025 the FDA ended mandatory blood testing in conjunction with clozapine use.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • These observations shifted clozapine’s course of development from that of an antidepressant medication to investigation of its potential use as an antipsychotic drug.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In 1961, however, studies in animals revealed that clozapine acts primarily as a sedative and exerts its effects without inducing muscle rigidity, as previous antipsychotics had.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

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