DIPHENOXYLATE HYDROCHLORIDE AND ATROPINE SULFATE
Pre-Launchatropine sulfate; diphenoxylate hydrochloride
ANDAORALTABLET
Lifecycle
Pre-Launch
Mechanism of Action
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY Diphenoxylate is rapidly and extensively metabolized in man by ester hydrolysis to diphenoxylic acid (difenoxine), which is biologically active and the major metabolite in the blood. After a 5-mg oral dose of carbon-14 labeled diphenoxylate hydrochloride in ethanolic solution…