Phenylmercuric propionate is used as a paint preservative. In addition, it is used as a preservative in cosmetics. It was reported, that phenylmercuric propionate used to sterilize bed lines in a hospital laundry produced contact urticarial and asthma.

Jervine (11-Ketocyclopamine) is a naturally occuring steroidal alkaloid is derived from the Veratrum plant species. Jervine is a teratogen implicated in birth defects when consumed by animals during a certain period of their gestation. Over the Hedgehog signaling pathway Jervine effectively inhibit the tumor growth using three human tumor xenograft models including lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and basal cell carcinoma. Jervine has the potential to advance to a treatment for different tumors.

Dromostanolone Propionate (known by the brand names Masteron and Drolban) was invented by Syntex in 1959. About 10 years later it was released on the American market by Lilly as brand name Drolban. The drug was first approved in the USA for use as a treatment of female breast cancer. However, the profile of side-effects included pronouncement of male characteristics in women and when more effective breast cancer treatments came to market drostanolone was gradually phased out. No longer used clinically dromostanolone propionate became very popular in the bodybuilding community. Today dromostanolone propionate remains on the list of approved medications, but it is not being manufactured or sold by pharmaceutical companies. It is still produced illegally by underground labs for use in the bodybuilding community.