In the past few decades there has been a hiatus in the momentum of research and discovery of ‘novel medicinal compounds’. This particular trend in drug development perhaps is augmented due to two vital factors, namely: first, strict empirical and rational approach to drug design; and secondly, high standards of safety and therapeutic efficacy together with tremendous increased costs of research and development and finally the clinical trials.
‘Drug design’ or ‘tailor-made compound’ aims at developing a drug with high degree of chemotherapeutic index and specific action. It is a logical effort to design a drug on as much a rational basis as possible thus reducing to the minimum the trial and error approach. It essentially involves the study of biodynamics of a drug besides the interaction between drug molecules and molecules composing the biological objects.
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- Publication Date
- May 4, 2014
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781312164345
- Category
- Science & Medicine
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): mohd yaqub khan
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