Question ambiguous on which specific VMAT-2 inhibitor they are referring to.
Tetrabenazine also inhibits VMAT-2 and theorized to inhibit neurotransmitter stores like reserpine.
See FDA package insert for tetrabenazine.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2008/021894lbl.pdf
Reserpine no longer prescribed in US due to drug discontinuation but supposedly it had VMAT 1 + VMAT 2 properties. Package insert no longer available to compare.
Reserpine was theorized to of deplete neurotransmitter transmission via inhibiting vesicular monamine transporters (name not coined yet) was first noted by Arvid Carlsson 1957. See autobiography 1998 describing his work
https://www.fens.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Carlsson-Arvid.pdf
However papers on the discovery of the VMAT 1-2 in the 1990s do discuss reserpine effect on 1 + 2 but tetrabenazine preferentially inhibiting VMAT 2.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC50469/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC39426/
Source: Other - FDA package insert + original discovery article





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