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- Path: sparky!uunet!Cadence.COM!bruceg
- From: bruceg@Cadence.COM (Bruce Gustifson)
- Subject: Re: DMSO as carrier?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.011649.19838@Cadence.COM>
- Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov10.050748.8432@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <1992Nov11.072510.27284@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <ASH.92Nov13091057@ulysses.mr.ams.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:16:49 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <ASH.92Nov13091057@ulysses.mr.ams.com> ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.072510.27284@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >
- > >n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- > >: >:
- > >: >: So what else is used in transderm patches, or is that it?
- > >:
- > >: >Nicotine and dramamine are two that I know of. I expect there are
- > >: >others.
- > >:
- > >: Nicotine and dramamine will carry other drugs through the skin?
- > >: I'd never read about that one.
- >
- > >Sorry, I was not being very clear. They are two substances which
- > >are used on transdermal patches. I assume dmso is the carrier.
- >
- > >Bill
- >
- >I was under the perhaps erroneous belief that Nicotine absorbs through
- >the skin just fine on its own and doesn't need a carrier.
- >
- >
- >-Alan Harder
- >
- >These opinions are mine. You can't have them. Stop, thief!
-
-
- I was reading the literature that came with a Habitrol(tm)
- patch my co-worker had, and the list of ingredients did not
- include DMSO. This should answer your question.
-