Nitro-reserpine

It may be stated here that it took nearly 20 years before reserpine got exploited in the pharmaceutical industry in the Western countries and, ajmaline about 10 years longer to get established as an anti-arrhythmic drug, and its industrial exploitation is also restricted to the Western countries. This long time lag between research and developed relating to new therapeutic agents has been mainly due to lack of adequate facilities with us for interdisciplinary researches in the field. In the case of nitro-reserpines and nitro-ajmaline also we have got to note that their utilization would depend on the commercial considerations of the pharmaceutical industry of the developed countries. 

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