Another potential issue: Most of the studies with sugammadex have been done with Zemeuron, a muscle relaxant also made by Organon.

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The patent protecting the active chemical in the drug has already expired, but a second patent, on using that chemical as a muscle relaxant, is valid until December 2021.

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Soma is a muscle relaxant.

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If a patient needed a big dose of muscle relaxant, it can mean more time on a ventilator as those drugs wear off.

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To accomplish this unique approach, Organon chemist Anton Bom came up with a molecule that resembles a hungry octopus, with eight chemical "arms" that can grab the muscle relaxant and trap it in a maw-like hole.

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Instead of targeting the receptors the muscle relaxants hit, sugammadex is a big carbohydrate molecule that binds to the muscle relaxant itself.

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The sugammadex molecule resembles a hungry octopus, with eight chemical arms that can grab the muscle relaxant already sold by Organon and put it into a mawlike hole.

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The doctor allegedly had a hand in the deaths of 200 Namibian prisoners, most of whom were injected with muscle relaxant so that their lungs collapsed.

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