Introduction to Drugs and Drug Targets

This chapter lays out some formal definitions of a drug or medicine and introduces the concept of a drug target. It then describes the wide range of drug types that are being produced by the biopharmaceutical industry. These include orally available drugs, proteins, nucleic acids, vaccines and stem...

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Autor principal: Zanders, Edward D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120710/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9902-3_2
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spelling pubmed-71207102020-04-06 Introduction to Drugs and Drug Targets Zanders, Edward D. The Science and Business of Drug Discovery Article This chapter lays out some formal definitions of a drug or medicine and introduces the concept of a drug target. It then describes the wide range of drug types that are being produced by the biopharmaceutical industry. These include orally available drugs, proteins, nucleic acids, vaccines and stem cells. Some background on all of these different types of molecule is provided to create a foundation for the remainder of the book. 2011-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7120710/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9902-3_2 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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