Anti-Inflammatory Drug Design Using a Molecular Hybridization Approach

The design of new drugs with better physiochemical properties, adequate absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, effective pharmacologic potency and lacking toxicity remains is a challenge. Inflammation is the initial trigger of several different diseases, such as Alzheimer's diseas...

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Main Authors: Jean Leandro dos Santos (Author), Man Chin Chung (Author), Ednir Oliveira Vizioli (Author), Priscila Longhin Bosquesi (Author), Thais Regina Ferreira Melo (Author)
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Published: MDPI AG, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:The design of new drugs with better physiochemical properties, adequate absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion, effective pharmacologic potency and lacking toxicity remains is a challenge. Inflammation is the initial trigger of several different diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, asthma, atherosclerosis, colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, cancer; and disorders such as obesity and sexual dysfunction. Although inflammation is not the direct cause of these disorders, inflammatory processes often increase related pain and suffering. New anti-inflammatory drugs developed using molecular hybridization techniques to obtain multiple-ligand drugs can act at one or multiple targets, allowing for synergic action and minimizing toxicity. This work is a review of new anti-inflammatory drugs developed using the molecular modification approach.
Item Description:10.3390/ph4111450
1424-8247