Drug class

Tocolytic Agents clinical trials

A class of medicines: the studies that test any of its 10 members, each study once. Members are as MeSH files each medicine’s actions, and as the NCI Thesaurus classes newer ones.

studies test it: 717
open now: 116
in phase 3: 160
first study started: 1992

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Medicines in this class

Studies that test each. A study of two counts under both, and once above.

Magnesium Sulfate: 322
Albuterol: 174
Indomethacin: 96
Nifedipine: 94
Terbutaline: 21
Atosiban: 17
Fenoterol: 3
Ritodrine: 3
Isoxsuprine: 1
Metaproterenol: 1

Studies by the year they started

708 studies that test it; most in 2024 (45); 1 more planned to start later

Studies that test Tocolytic Agents, by start year
Year	Studies
1992	1
1993	4
1995	1
1997	3
1998	6
1999	2
2000	4
2001	5
2002	5
2003	9
2004	6
2005	13
2006	11
2007	17
2008	24
2009	15
2010	21
2011	26
2012	32
2013	34
2014	30
2015	38
2016	43
2017	40
2018	28
2019	27
2020	35
2021	34
2022	41
2023	37
2024	45
2025	31
2026	40

By phase

A phase 1/2 study counts in both.

Early Phase 1: 22
Phase 1: 81
Phase 2: 132
Phase 3: 160
Phase 4: 188
No phase: 196

What it is tested for

Each study’s main condition, where its own words name it.

Asthma: 69
Pain, Postoperative: 37
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive: 27
Pre-Eclampsia: 21
Pancreatitis: 20
Hypertension: 14
Obstetric Labor, Premature: 12
Atrial Fibrillation: 10
Premature Birth: 10
Eclampsia: 9
Ductus Arteriosus, Patent: 8
Essential Hypertension: 7

Who runs them

Industry 96 · Other 621

Assiut University (44) · Cairo University (22) · GlaxoSmithKline (14) · Ain Shams University (13) · Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc. (13) · Bayer (12) · Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (11) · University of Monastir (8)

Studies

Open first, then newest update. How each study uses a medicine is read from its arms, and is right about nine times in ten.

Testing one of them · 717

See all 717 studies that test one of the tocolytic agents →

Codes

What other systems call Tocolytic Agents · ClinicalTrials.gg INT008444

MeSH (NLM) D015149Tocolytic AgentsOne source ClinicalTrials.gov

System	Code	Name there	Checked by
MeSH (NLM)	D015149	Tocolytic Agents	One source ClinicalTrials.gov

“Confirmed” means two independent publishers link the code to this drug; “one source”, one does and its name agrees.