Where Do Drugs Come From

Approved for sale in March 1998 to treat male impotency, Viagra has been used by more than 16 million men. It is also used to treat pulmonary hypertension and is currently undergoing study as a treatment for preeclampsia, a complication of pregnancy that is responsible for as many as 70,000 deaths each year. Where do new drugs like this come from  

Where do the new drugs come from According to a study carried out at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, only 33% of new drugs are entirely synthetic and completely unrelated to any naturally occurring substance. The remaining 67% take their lead, to 

Many years of work go into screening many thousands of substances to identify a single compound that might ultimately gain approval as an NME. But after that single compound has been identified, the work has just begun 

Human testing takes 5 to 7 years and is divided into three phases. Phase I clinical trials are carried out on a small group of healthy volunteers to establish safety and look for side effects. Several months to a year are needed, and only about 70% of drugs pass at this point. Phase 11 clinical trials next test the drug for 1 to 2 years in several 

Drug Animal tests, Phase Phase II Phase III NDA Ongoing 

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A Comparison Between Biological Reactions and Laboratory Reactions A Deeper Look— Where Do Drugs Come From ... 

Walters, D. Eric. Where Do New Drugs Come From Department of Biochemistry tC Molecular Biology, Rosalind Franklin University. Available online. URL http //www.finchcms.edu/cms/biochem/ walters/walters lect/walters lect.html. Downloaded on August 17, 2005. 

Where do new drugs like this come from ... 

No matter how you look at it, heroin addiction limits personal freedom. Like a cigarette addict, the junkie cannot go anywhere or do anything without thinking about where his next fix is coming from. Unlike the cigarette addict, he cannot buy his drug for a reasonable price at the corner store, and he will become really sick if he cannot get it. 

Our interest has focused on individual origin, assemblage of these three resistant genes, and the regulation mechanism of macrolide resistance in the plasmid pMS97 Where has each of them come from Have they ever constituted a cluster themselves How do they regulate the expression of drug resistance, independently or cooperatively ... 

Where do these natural products come from, and how are they found Although most chemists and biologists spend most of their time in the laboratory, a few spend their days scuba diving on South Pacific islands or trekking through the rainforests of South America and Southeast Asia at work as bioprospectors. Their job is to hunt for new and unusual natural products that might be useful as drugs. 

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