Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry A to H

Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
(IUPAC Recommendations 1998)

A to H

Contents Active transport, Address-message concept, ADME, Affinity, Agonist, Allosteric binding sites, Allosteric enzyme, Allosteric regulation, Analog, Antagonist, Antimetabolite, Antisense molecule, Autacoid, Autoreceptor, Bioassay, Bioisostere, Bioprecursor prodrug, Biotransformation, CADD See Computer-assisted drug design., Carrier-linked prodrug (Carrier prodrug), Cascade prodrug, Catabolism, Catabolite , Clone, Codon, Coenzyme, Combinatorial library, Combinatorial synthesis, CoMFA See Comparative Molecular Field Analysis, Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA), Computational chemistry, Computer-assisted drug design (CADD), Congener, Cooperativity, 3D-QSAR See Three-dimensional Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship, De novo design, Disposition See Drug disposition, Distomer, Docking studies, Double-blind study, Double prodrug (or pro-prodrug), Drug, Drug disposition, Drug latentiation, Drug targeting, Dual action drug, Efficacy, Elimination, Enzyme, Enzyme induction, Enzyme repression, Eudismic ratio, Eutomer, Genome, Hansch analysis, Hapten, Hard drug, Heteroreceptor, Homologue, Hormone, Hydrophilicity, Hydrophobicity.

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