[Prodrugs: goals, principles and outlook].

The review covers the principles of creation of prodrugs as a chemical system for delivering drugs to targets. It presents the strategy of prodrug design and describes the main approaches to creation of prodrugs for drugs of different classes: antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and antitumour agents, corticosteroids, agents of the central action, etc.

Keywords

Structure-Activity Relationship, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Drug Design, Terminology as Topic, Humans, Prodrugs

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