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Tetrabenazine is a dopamine depleting medication for the treatment of chorea in Huntington’s disease.

ChEBI: 9,10-dimethoxy-3-isobutyl-1,3,4,6,7,11b-hexahydro-2H-pyrido[2,1-a]isoquinolin-2-one is a benzoquinolizine that is 1,2,3,4,4a,9,10,10a-octahydrophenanthrene in which the carbon at position 10a is replaced by a nitrogen and which is substituted by an isobutyl group at position 2, an oxo group at position 3, and methoxy groups at positions 6 and 7. It is a benzoquinolizine, a cyclic ketone and a tertiary amino compound.