Benzocaine is a local anesthetic commonly used as a topical pain reliever or in cough drops
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1. Assembling and de-assembling micelles: competitive interactions of cyclodextrins and drugs with Pluronics
In this work, we solubilised the local anaesthetic lidocaine or benzocaine into F127 micelles at varying concentrations. A simple phase diagram of F127 in the presence of lidocaine shows regions of existence of either a sol or a gel state (Fig. 7).
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