Los Angeles County Coroner's officials said Monday that the son of Clippers owner Donald Sterling died from a pulmonary embolism after injecting narcotic medication meant to be taken orally.

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The drug is supposed to be taken orally.

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But because CGRP has a complex receptor the slot where the molecule must bind in order to initiate actions in the body it took chemists 15 years to figure out how to block the effects of CGRP, and even longer to develop a compound that could be taken orally, says Dr. Goadsby.

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It can be taken orally or applied to the skin.

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Genentech wanted to see if its injectable growth hormone could be taken orally.

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Dr Mundy said this could be because statins are designed to zero in on the liver when taken orally.

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