[e-drug] Heat stable oxytocin? (2)

["Pauline Norris" <pauline.norris@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>]

E-DRUG: Heat stable oxytocin? (2)
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Dear E-druggers,

My colleague, Professor Thomas Rades, is a pharmaceutical scientist who 
works on formulation and drug delivery. He is not optimistic about the 
possibility of heat-stable oxytocin.. He says that oxytocin itself is is 
inherently unstable, so to make it heat-stable it would need to be 
changed chemically, which would then make a new drug, and that this new 
drug would be very expensive to bring to the market.

sorry to not give a more positive answer,

Pauline

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Pauline Norris, PhD
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School of Pharmacy
University of Otago
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