DIPHENOXYLATE HYDROCHLORIDE AND ATROPINE SULFATE

Pre-Launch

atropine sulfate; diphenoxylate hydrochloride

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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…