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polypharmacology en · NOUN

Etymology

From poly- + pharmacology.

Meanings

  1. The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
    • While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape. 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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