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Lauric acid

Lauric acid is an inexpensive, non-toxic and safe to handle compound often used in laboratory investigations of melting-point depression. … Lauric acid is a solid at room temperature but melts easily in boiling water, so liquid lauric acid can be treated with various solutes and used to determine their molecular masses.

Diloxanide

Diloxanide (as [Diloxanide furoate]) is an anti-protozoal drug used in the treatment of Entamoeba histolytica and some other protozoal infections. … Although it is not currently approved for use in the United States, it was approved by a CDC study in the treatment of 4,371 cases of Entamoeba histolytica from 1977 to 1990.

Suramin

A polyanionic compound with an unknown mechanism of action. … Suramin is manufactured by Bayer in Germany as Germanin®.

Acrizanib

Acrizanib is under investigation in clinical trial NCT02355028 (LHA510 Proof-of-concept Study as a Maintenance Therapy for Patients With Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration).

Guar gum

Mercuric chloride

Mercuric chloride was used to disinfect wounds by Arab physicians in the Middle Ages but modern medicine has since deemed it unsafe for use. [T112]

Phosmet

It is mainly used on apple trees to control codling moths. It is also used on other fruit crops, ornamentals, and vines to control aphids, suckers, mites, and fruit flies.

Posizolid

Posizolid (AZD2563) is an oxazolidinone antibiotic. … In July 2002, after completion of phase I trials in December 2001, AstraZeneca announced that they were no longer pursuing the development of Posizolid, presumably due to negative trial results (though

Sulfobromophthalein

Sulfobromophthalein or otherwise called bromsulphthalein is used as a test of liver function in humans [A174970].

Sarracenia Purpurea

Cytoprotection in an in vitro model of diabetic neuropathy has also been studied. However, the use of Sarracenia Purpurea extracts in the clinical setting are limited. … It was used as an injectable pain reliever and during the 19th century, _Sarracenia purpurea_ was used as a treatment of smallpox [A32509].