Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Preparations characterized by special physical form – Implant or insert
Patent
1998-01-30
1999-08-31
Page, Thurman K.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Preparations characterized by special physical form
Implant or insert
424464, 5147726, A61F 606, A61K 920, A61K 4732
Patent
active
059451173
ABSTRACT:
Sexual dysfunction in human females can be ameliorated, without substantial undesirable side effects, by sublingual administration of apomorphine dosage forms. Administration of apomorphine increases nerve stimulated clitoral intracavernosal blood flow and vaginal wall blood flow for enhanced clitoral erection and vaginal engorgement in a female. A plasma concentration of apomorphine of no more than about 5.5 nanograms per milliliter is preferably maintained.
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El-Rashidy Ragab
Ronsen Bruce
Howard S.
Page Thurman K.
Pentech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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