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unusual facts about Trade name



CHAdeMO

CHAdeMO (sometimes stylized CHΛdeMO, with uppercase Greek letter lambda) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector.

Cytarabine

It was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in June 1969, and was initially marketed in the U.S. by Upjohn under the trade name Cytosar-U.

Tamsulosin

Tamsulosin was developed by Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals (now part of Astellas Pharma) and was first marketed in 1996 under the trade name Flomax.

Terbutaline

Terbutaline (trade names Brethine, Bricanyl, Brethaire, or Terbulin) is a asthma symptoms and as a tocolytic (anti-contraction medication) to delay preterm labor for up to 48 hours.

Truphone

Truphone (a trading name of Truphone Ltd, formerly Software Cellular Network Ltd) was founded in 2006 by James Tagg, Alexander Straub and Alistair Campbell.


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Aflibercept

Aflibercept (INN, USAN) is a fusion protein approved in the United States and Europe for the treatment of wet macular degeneration under the trade name Eylea, and for metastatic colorectal cancer as Zaltrap.

All the Year Round

One month after the launch, Dickens won a lawsuit in the Court of Chancery against his former publisher Bradbury and Evans, giving him back the trade name of his previous journal.

Ambazone

Ambazon was patented in 1957 by Bayer under the trade name Iversal, and briefly used in Germany.

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome

Before the introduction of eculizumab (INN and USAN, trade name Soliris), a monoclonal antibody that is a first-in-class terminal complement inhibitor, management options for patients with aHUS were extremely limited.

Babycham

Babycham is the trade name of a light, sparkling perry invented by Francis Showering, a brewer in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, England; the name is now owned by Accolade Wines.

Betapoietin

Betapoietin is the trade name of erythropoietin beta made by CinnaGen and Zahravi, a hormone treatment for anaemia and sometimes used in chemotherapy

Cipemastat

Cipemastat (rINN, also known as Ro 32-3555 and by the tentative trade name Trocade) is a selective inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-1 that has been investigated as an anti-arthritis agent.

Crofelemer

Crofelemer (USAN, trade name Fulyzaq) is a drug under development for the treatment of diarrhea associated with anti-HIV drugs such as nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors.

Equipoise

Boldenone, an anabolic steroid, by the trade name Equipoise

Galactorrhea

Galactorrhea is also a side effect associated with the use of the second-generation H2 receptor antagonist Cimetidine (trade name: Tagamet).

GameTek

GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rights to Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.

Ganciclovir

Ganciclovir for ocular use is marketed under the trade name Vitrasert (Bausch & Lomb).

Gendron, Inc.

Catalogs from the 1950s and early 1960s show playground equipment and hand car racers with the trade name Howdy Doody.

Gitoformate

Gitoformate (INN, or pentaformylgitoxin, trade name Dynocard) is a cardiac glycoside, a type of drug that can be used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat).

Itolizumab

Itolizumab (INN, trade name Alzumab) is a ‘first in class’ humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody developed by Biocon.

Josh Graves

Also known by the nicknames "Buck," and "Uncle Josh," he is credited with introducing the resonator guitar (commonly known under the trade name of Dobro) into bluegrass music shortly after joining Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955.

Kalise Menorquina

Beatrice Foods also bought a stake in Modernas Aplicaciones de la Refrigeracion Industrial, SA, under the trade name Marisa.

Lighting technician

These plug or tap into other modular units fed from bigger premade cables and splitters with the CAM-LOK” TM - Trade name which has become a generic vernacular; moulded water resistant SINGLE PIN connector,under the standard IP44 splash or waterproof connectors.

Lofenalac

Kuvan (trade name for the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin in a pill form)

Maxair

Pirbuterol, trade name for a pharmaceutical used in the treatment of asthma

Methylthioninium chloride

Methylthioninium chloride (INN, or methylene blue, proposed trade name Rember) is an investigational drug being developed by the University of Aberdeen and TauRx Therapeutics that has been shown in early clinical trials to be an inhibitor of Tau protein aggregation.

Micafungin

Micafungin (trade name Mycamine) is an echinocandin antifungal drug developed by Astellas Pharma.

Nitroscanate

Nitroscanate (trade name Lopatol) is an anthelmintic drug used in veterinary medicine to treat Toxocara canis, Toxascaris leonina, Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephalia, Taenia, and Dipylidium caninum (roundworms, hookworms and tapeworms).

Ormeloxifene

It was first manufactured by Torrent Pharmaceuticals, and marketed as birth control under the trade name Centron.

PEDOT:PSS

Commercially available PEDOT:PSS products are produced by Heraeus with the trade name Clevios and by AGFA with the trade name Orgacon.

Pegdinetanib

Pegdinetanib (USAN; planned trade name Angiocept) is an investigational anti-cancer drug that acts as a selective antagonist of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2), hindering vascularization of tumors.

Pimecrolimus

It is available as a topical cream, once marketed by Novartis (however, Galderma has been promoting the compound in Canada since early 2007) under the trade name Elidel.

Plicamycin

Plicamycin (INN, also known as mithramycin; trade name Mithracin) is an antineoplastic antibiotic produced by Streptomyces plicatus.

Psyclon Nine

The name is a malapropism of Zyklon B, the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in the early 1920s and infamous for its later use by Nazi Germany to kill human beings in gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Recombinant DNA

;Herbicide-resistant crops : commercial varieties of important agricultural crops (including soy, maize/corn, sorghum, canola, alfalfa and cotton) have been developed that incorporate a recombinant gene that results in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (trade name Roundup), and simplifies weed control by glyphosate application.

Rivastigmine

Rivastigmine (sold under the trade name Exelon) is a parasympathomimetic or cholinergic agent for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and dementia due to Parkinson's disease.

Rotary dial

From the 1960s onward, the rotary dial was gradually supplanted by dual-tone multi-frequency push-button dialing, first introduced to the public at the 1962 World's Fair under the trade name Touch-Tone®.

RuBisCO

The term "RuBisCO" was coined humorously in 1979, by David Eisenberg at a seminar honouring the retirement of the early, prominent RuBisCO researcher, Sam Wildman, and also alluded to the snack food trade name "Nabisco" in reference to Wildman's attempts to create edible tobacco leaves.

Sailcloth

PBO (Poly (p-phenylene-2, 6-benzobisoxazole)) is liquid crystal polymer developed by Japan-based Toyobo under the trade name Zylon.

PEN (Polyethylene naphthalate), commonly known by Honeywell's trade name "Pentex", is another kind of polyester fiber, which stretches only 40% as much as standard PET fibers, but about twice as much as Kevlar 29.

Saunders T.1

In the absence of waterproof glues, Saunders sewed sheets together with copper wire, a method known by the trade name Consuta.

Swanny

Swanndri, a trade name for a range of outdoor clothing, very popular in New Zealand

The Wooster Book Company

Under the trade name “The Wooster Book Company,” its first title, a corporate history of Rubbermaid, written by retired Rubbermaid CEO and Chairman of the Board, Donald E. Noble, was released in 1996.

Torinal

Diphenhydramine, sold under the trade name Torinal, and the one most commonly referred to by that name

Tridemorph

It was developed by BASF in the 1960s who use the trade name Calixin.

Triumph Motor Company

The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863–1951) of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling them with his own trade-name in London.

Vertometer

Vertometer was the trade name of an instrument made by Bausch & Lomb (B&L) and later by Reichert.

Zetix

It is marketed in North America under the trade name Xtegra by Advanced Fabric Technologies of Houston, Texas.