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Pharmaceutical Research
Study results from J.L. Zhang and colleagues in the area of pharmaceutical research published
July 14th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, "The purpose of this work was to search for potential drugs with potent antitussive and expectorant activities as well as a low toxicity, but without addictive properties. Cholic acid-verticinone ester (CA-Ver) was synthesized based on the clearly elucidated antitussive and expectorant activities of verticinone in bulbs of Fritillaria and different bile acids in Snake Bile." "In our previous study, CA-Ver showed a much more potent activity than codeine phosphate. This study was carried out to investigate the central antitussive mechanism and the addictive evaluation of CA-Ver....
Source: Drug Law Weekly (2009-07-14)
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