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2 unusual facts about Active ingredient


Active ingredient

While Aesica, Piramal, MSD (Northumberland), Sanofi (Tyne & Wear) and GlaxoSmithKline (County Durham) are all secondary pharmaceutical manufacturers who formulate and package API's for consumer use.

Allopathic medicine

Allopathic medicine is an expression commonly used by homeopaths and proponents of other forms of alternative medicine to refer to mainstream medical use of pharmacologically active agents or physical interventions to treat or suppress symptoms or pathophysiologic processes of diseases or conditions.



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Amorolfine

Marketed as Curanail, Loceryl, Locetar, and Odenil, amorolfine is commonly available in the form of a nail lacquer, containing 5% amorolfine as the active ingredient.

APAP

Paracetamol, an analgesic drug, also known as APAP from active ingredient acetyl-para-aminophenol

Bushman repellent

It is applied directly to the skin and uses DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) as its active ingredient to repel insects, particularly Sandflies, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Leeches and Marchflies.

Butenafine

Butenafine hydrochloride is a synthetic benzylamine antifungal, marketed under the trade names Mentax, Butop (India) and is the active ingredient in Schering-Plough's Lotrimin Ultra.

Calcium arsenate

It is currently the active ingredient in TURF-Cal manufactured by Mallinckrodt, it is one of the few herbicides – used mainly for the control of Poa annua and crabgrass- that hinders earthworm activity.

Doug Waterhouse

He is best known for the invention of the active ingredient in Aerogard, an Australian insect repellent.

Dyclonine

Dyclonine is an oral anaesthetic that is the active ingredient of Sucrets, an over the counter throat lozenge.

Edward Bright Vedder

He discovered that emetine, the active ingredient of the ancient emetic ipecacuanha, is an amoebicide and therefore effective against amoebic dysentery.

Gemifloxacin

Oscient Pharmaceuticals has licensed the active ingredient from LG Life Sciences of Korea.

Mary Shaw Shorb

With the assay breakthrough, Folkers and his Merck team isolated crystals of the active ingredient – Vitamin B12 – from multiple sources within about three months.

Roach bait

To control colonies the roach bait may contain the active ingredient Fipronil .05% or Hydramethylnon 2%, available from Maxforce and Combat.

The active ingredient Hydramethylnon 2% used as an insecticide in the form of bait for cockroaches leading to death in 2–4 days.

The active ingredient Fipronil .05% disrupts the insect central nervous system, leading to the cockroach’s death in 6 to 24 hours.

Sensodyne

Depending on the product's active ingredient - Potassium Nitrate, Strontium Acetate, or NovaMin technology.