Long acting versions of rFVIIa, rFVIII and rFIX are either already in or are about to enter clinical trials.
George Bernard Shaw was highly critical of productions of Shakespeare, and specifically denounced the dramatic practice of editing Shakespeare's plays, whose scenes tended to be cut in order to create "acting versions".
He singled out 19th-century actor Sir Henry Irving for this practice, in one of his reviews: Shavian scholar John F. Matthews credits him with the disappearance of the two-hundred-year-old tradition of editing Shakespeare into "acting versions".
Oncoproteins are dominant-positive acting versions of "cellular decision makers" that usually control cellular growth, survival, proliferation and differentiation.
A lot of her friends in the film are very much play acting a version of adulthood, of maturity.
The medicine is a longer-acting version of Amgen's drug Epogen.
A longer-acting version of the drug, which would require just one injection a month, is also being developed.
In the last two years, three new diabetes medicines have reached the market — Januvia, Byetta and Symlin — as well as Levemir, a longer-acting version of injectable insulin.
But developing a longer-acting version of a best-selling medicine is also a classic strategy to extend the time that a company can sell a drug exclusively.
OxyContin, a long-acting version of the narcotic oxycodone, is a valuable drug for treating serious pain because its effects last longer than traditional short-acting painkillers like Percocet or Vicodin.
The lower-dose capsules can help people fall asleep, putting them in the same category as the short-acting version of Ambien, which is expected to become generic either later this year or next.
