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The Upjohn Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 in Kalamazoo, Michigan by Dr. William E. Upjohn, an 1875 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school. [1]

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Alprazolam

Alprazolam, available under the trade name Xanax, is a potent, short-acting benzodiazepine anxiolytic—a minor tranquilizer.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.

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Cholic acid

Cholic acid, also known as 3α,7α,12α-trihydroxy-5β-cholan-24-oic acid is a primary bile acid that is insoluble in water (soluble in alcohol and acetic acid), it is a white crystalline substance.

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Cortisone

Cortisone, also known as 17α,21-dihydroxypregn-4-ene-3,11,20-trione, is a pregnane (21-carbon) steroid hormone.

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Ibuprofen

Ibuprofen is a medication in the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) class that is used for treating pain, fever, and inflammation.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Lincomycin

Lincomycin is a lincosamide antibiotic that comes from the actinomycete Streptomyces lincolnensis.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Minoxidil

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Pharmaceutical industry

The pharmaceutical industry (or medicine industry) is the commercial industry that discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as different types of medicine and medications.

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Pharmacia

Pharmacia was a pharmaceutical and biotechnological company in Sweden that merged with the American pharmaceutical company Upjohn in 1995.

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Pharmacia & Upjohn

Pharmacia & Upjohn was a global pharmaceutical company formed by the merger of Sweden-based Pharmacia AB and the American company Upjohn in 1995.

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Prednisone

Prednisone is a synthetic glucocorticoid drug that is mostly used to suppress the immune system.

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Progesterone

Progesterone (P4) is an endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and embryogenesis of humans and other species.

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Rhizopus

Rhizopus is a genus of common saprophytic fungi on plants and specialized parasites on animals.

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Schering AG

Schering AG was a research-centered German multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Wedding, Berlin, which operated as an independent company from 1851 to 2006.

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Steroid

A steroid is a biologically active organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific molecular configuration.

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Stigmasterol

Stigmasterol (also known as Wulzen anti-stiffness factor) is a plant sterol, or phytosterol.

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Triazolam

Triazolam (original brand name Halcion) is a central nervous system (CNS) depressant in the benzodiazepine class.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Upjohn dihydroxylation

The Upjohn dihydroxylation is an organic reaction which converts an alkene to a cis vicinal diol.

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W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Founded in 1945, the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is an American independent research organization based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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William E. Upjohn

William Erastus Upjohn (June 15, 1853 – October 18, 1932) was an American medical doctor, founder and president of The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upjohn

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