يستعمل دواء فلوميتول 0.1٪ قطرة معقمة للعينflumetol s 0.1% sterile eye drops glucocorticoid glucocorticoid

about fluorometholone (eye.prep.) -a synthetic glucocorticoid in steroid responsive inflammations of eye( topical anti-inflammatory). -mechanism of action of fluorometholone (eye.prep.) -the drug exerts its pharmacological action by penetrating and binding to cytoplasmic receptor protein and causes a structural change in steroid receptor complex. this structural change allows its migration in to the nucleus and then binding to specific sites on the dna which leads to transcription of specific m-rna and which ultimately regulates protein synthesis. it exerts highly selective glucocorticoid action. it stimulates the enzymes needed to decrease the inflammatory response. -the drug exerts anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant actions as follows: - 1) induce lipocortins in macrophages endothelium and fibroblasts which inhibits phospholipase a2 and thus decreases the production of prostaglandins leukotriens (lt) and platelet activating factor 2) causes negative regulation of genes fo