21. Bupivacaine injection is currently the only pharmacologic treatment clinically shown to strengthen and shorten extraocular muscles. 22. Doxycycline is now preferred to oxytetracycline for many of these indications because it has improved pharmacologic features. 23. Pharmacologic intervention with alagebrium directly targets the biochemical pathway leading to the stiffness of the cardiovascular system.24. Diacetolol is as active as acebutolol ( equipotency ) and appears to have the same pharmacologic profile. 25. Dendrobine has pharmacologic effects that include analgesic ( pain-killing ) and anti-fever effects. 26. Philip Morris researchers wrote about what they described as the " pharmacologic " effects of nicotine. 27. Duloxetine undergoes extensive metabolism, but the major circulating metabolites do not contribute significantly to the pharmacologic activity. 28. However, an exercise stress test may provide more information about exercise tolerance than a pharmacologic stress test. 29. Denosumab is a pharmacologic agent that in essence acts like osteoprotegerin as a decoy receptor for osteoblastic RANKL. 30. Ideally, the main pharmacologic activities of the isomers should be compared in in vitro systems in animals.
