Licarbazepine is a voltage-gated sodium channel blocker with anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing effects that is related to oxcarbazepine.[1] It is an active metabolite of oxcarbazepine.[1][2] In addition, an enantiomer of licarbazepine, eslicarbazepine ((S)-(+)-licarbazepine), is an active metabolite of eslicarbazepine acetate.[1][2] Oxcarbazepine and eslicarbazepine acetate are inactive on their own, and behave instead as prodrugs to licarbazepine and eslicarbazepine, respectively, to produce their therapeutic effects.[1][2]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Singh RP, Asconapé JJ (2011). "A review of eslicarbazepine acetate for the adjunctive treatment of partial-onset epilepsy". Journal of Central Nervous System Disease. 3: 179–87. doi:10.4137/JCNSD.S4888. PMC 3663619. PMID 23861647.
  2. 1 2 3 Bialer M, Soares-da-Silva P (June 2012). "Pharmacokinetics and drug interactions of eslicarbazepine acetate". Epilepsia. 53 (6): 935–46. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03519.x. PMID 22612290. S2CID 21233948.
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