Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets.
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.
Imming
Peter
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Institut für Pharmazie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle, Germany. peter.imming@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
Sinning
Christian
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Meyer
Achim
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D000818:Animals; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000145:classification*; D010600:Pharmacology
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations