title: [Chiral drugs: pharmacological tools and/or therapeutic problems?].
abstract: Various issues connected with chiral drugs are discussed. They include definitions, the concept of stereoselectivity in pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic processes, the need for a stereochemically informative generic name system, and the debate surrounding eutomers versus racemates in pharmacotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Ecole de pharmacie, Université de Lausanne.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Testa
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010599:Pharmacokinetics; D010600:Pharmacology; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D009626:Terminology as Topic
vernacular_title: Médicaments chiraux: outils pharmacologiques et/ou problème thérapeutique?