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the _D_ all_s this drug to be marketed?
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A Yeah
3 _ And doctors can even prescribe it?
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& Right, not just with glaucomas but I mean
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you can use its
6 _ Right. With _Liotlcs, pilocarplne?
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E Pilocarplne
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Pilocazpine and phospholine iodide would be
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typical. What would be the percentage drop in IOP
I0 from those drugs? Typically, I meant is there a
l ! range?
12 E _n teems o_ percentage of whatever the
]3 original intraocular pressure was, somewhere probably
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14 20 percent_ something of that order of magnitude.
15 _ Okay, and ageing these are used in
16 c_bination with other glaucoma drugs?
17 A Or alone, or alone.
l_ (_ " OE alone. No problem.
1% A_ ._m sorzy. _ run my words together.
...... o 20 _ NOw_ was phosphoilne _Lodlde developed as a
21 World War X_ nerve gas? _s that --
22 E Yeah, _ believe it was, ecothinephane
23 phosphate {phonetic).
24 _ And don_t these dr_q_ also -- can they
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cause cataracts ?
NEAL R. GROSS
CO_T REPORTERS AND TRAN$C_8_$
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