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Drug prescribed for the treatment of gout; it
is an isomer of hypexanthine C5H4N4O, and
acts by reducing levels of uric acid in the
blood. Discovered accidentally in the early
1960s in the search for new
immunosuppressives, it has no effects on
acute gout attacks, and may even provoke them
in the initial stages of therapy. In the long
term, it prevents the deposit of urate in the
joints and the formation of uric-acid kidney
stones.