title: [Prodrugs: goals, principles and outlook].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Piotrovskiĭ
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dumpis
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D011355:Prodrugs / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000493:pharmacokinetics / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D011355:Prodrugs
vernacular_title: Prolekarstva: tseli, printsipy i perspektivy.