Talk:Bremelanotide

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Is this available in the US?

Watch for the completion of third stage trials late in 2006. It should become available quickly if approved by the FDA. For now, it is only available to research centers preselected by Palatin Tech.

According to Palatin Technolgies the Phase III testing will not start before second half of 2006. About 30% to 50% of drugs fail in Phase III. If it comes through, approval by the FDA is not expected before 2009.

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[edit] Bremelanotide

Bremelanotide is the new name for PT-141. [1]

[edit] International availability?

I was curious to know if Bremelanotide could make it to other countries before or without FDA approval.69.6.162.160 02:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Sure. As soon as it turns out to work, and gets the publicity and the market, all the internet pharmacies will (claim to) have it. It is a hepta-peptide lactam, which makes it somewhat difficult, but perfectly possible to produce in any semi-professional environment. Producing it is not the problem, making sure it doesn't have strong side-effects is. Denial 19:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of a typosquatting site

Greetings to my fellow editors. Please note that I've removed the typosquatting site "bremolanotide.com" from this article. This domain is a typosquat of bremelanotide.com (owned by King Pharmaceuticals partner with Palatin Technologies). Typosquatting is very unethical and as such any site that is engaged in such activity should never be linked from this article. Thanks. (→Netscott) 22:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sure if the site is strictly a 'typosquatter' site... or if it is - and regardless of malicious intent or not - there appear to be other legitimate sites jumping on that same bandwagon... :)
i.e. taking a look at the home page, there are links to articles on MSNBC, ABC News, and an NBC News Affiliate - along with two blogs - which all spell it "Bremolanotide".
Additionally, the "Bremelanotide Bulletin" published on that site has unique updated content about the drug's development. (Google and MSN Live appear to agree, since the site ranks #3 for "Bremelanotide" - right under Palatin Technologies and Wikipedia). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.157.48.186 (talk • contribs).
Yes, the fact that other sources are referring to bremelanotide as "bremolanotide" is likely partially stemming from this typosquatting site. Just because this site has managed to Google bomb the word "bremelanotide" with this typosquatted domain and managed to get a decent rank with it doesn't mean that such activity needs to be furthered with a link from Wikipedia. Wikipedia's not to be used for spreading falsehoods. (→Netscott) 06:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Effective Delivery

Would it be possible to administer this via aerosol, possibly on a large scale?

IUPAC Name added--ChemSpiderMan (talk) 04:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, it likely COULD be dispersed on a large scale like that... but it would be prohibitively expensive and require the people to deeply 'sniff' the vapor. Breathing through the mouth probably wouldn't work. And keep in mind Bremelanotide causes simple arousal, not uncontrollable lust... Shriker (talk) 11:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)