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September-October 2012
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Recent IUPAC technical reports and recommendations that affect the many fields of pure and applied chemistry.
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Mohammad H. El-Dakdouki and Paul W. Erhardt
Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2012
Vol. 84, No. 7, pp. 1479–1542
The benefits of utilizing marketed drugs as starting points to discover new therapeutic agents have been well documented within the IUPAC series of books that bear the title Analogue-based Drug Discovery (ABDD). Not as clearly demonstrated, however, is that ABDD also contributes to the elaboration of new basic principles and alternative drug design strategies that are useful to the field of medicinal chemistry in general. After reviewing the ABDD programs that have evolved around the area of microtubule-stabilizing chemo-therapeutic agents, the present article delineates the associated research activities that additionally contributed to general strategies that can be useful for prodrug design, identifying pharmacophores, circumventing multidrug resistance, and achieving targeted drug distribution.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/PAC-CON-12-02-13
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