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 the _D_ all_s this drug to be marketed?
 4o 2
 A Yeah
 3 _ And doctors can even prescribe it?
 4
 & Right, not just with glaucomas but I mean
 5
 you can use its
 6 _ Right. With _Liotlcs, pilocarplne?
 7
 E Pilocarplne
 8
 Pilocazpine and phospholine iodide would be
 ..... %
 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
 !
 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
 25
 cause cataracts ?
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