Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2006 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, volume 5, pages 821-834 (issn: 1474-1776, eissn: 1474-1784,

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Authors: Peter, Imming; Christian, Sinning; Achim, Meyer;

doi: 10.1038/nrd2132

pmid: 17016423

Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

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Abstract

What is a drug target? And how many such targets are there? Here, we consider the nature of drug targets, and by classifying known drug substances on the basis of the discussed principles we provide an estimation of the total number of current drug targets.

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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
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Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Drug Design, Animals, Humans

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