Past approaches to discovering new medicines
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Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Farmacia.
Date
1995-06-20Referencia bibliográfica
Ganellin, C.; Robin. Past approaches to discovering new medicines . Ars Pharm, 36(3):329-335 (1995). Disponible en: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/ars/article/view/24685
Abstract
Se hace una breve historia de las principales aproximaciones al descubrimiento de
nuevos fármacos. Se describen cuatro de las principales aproximaciones: productos
naturales, uso de prototipos existentes, screening farmacológico y transmisores fisiológicos. A brief account is given of the main approaches to new drug discovery which have
been taken during the twentieth century. Four main sources for new drugs are described
and each of these is discussed in turn; they are: natural products, existing drugs, screens
and physiological transmitters.