Drug may refer to:
Drug is defined as any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things.
Drug withdrawal
a clinical syndrome of psychological, and, sometimes physical factors that result from the sustained use of a particular drug when the drug is abruptly withdrawn.
drug mechanisms, design and development
clinical diagnostics
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Major Drug Firms Create Public SNP Resource
In April, ten large pharmaceutical companies and the U.K. Wellcome Trust philanthropy announced the establishment of a consortium headed by Arthur L.
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. See Food and Drug Administration.
Fungicide. An agent, such as a chemical, that kills fungi.
Fungus. A microorganism that lacks chlorophyll.
Drug discovery is simple compared to drug development, which requires testing the efficacy and the safety of new drugs through clinical trials.
Drug treatments now allow many HIV+ individuals to live longer and maintain a higher quality of life.
Drug details for Adenosine for fast heart rates. ... Adenosine reduces the normal flow of the electrical impulses through the ...
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Drug companies — after many years of complacency — are now responding to the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Over a dozen new antibiotics are being developed and some have already reached clinical trials.
A drug which attenuates the effects of an agonist. Antagonism can be competitive and reversible (i.e. it binds reversibly to a region of the receptor in common with the agonist.) or competitve and irreversible (i.e.
addictive drug Substance that induces an addiction by causing physiological dependence, psychological dependence, and/or tolerance.
adduct An action.
thalidomide - drug which is a powerful human teratogen. First synthesized in Germany in 1954 as a new antihistamine, the drug was found to be a safe and effective sedative.
Cyclosporin A drug that is a potent suppressor of the immune system and is used to prevent rejection in organ transplants.
See Food and Drug Administration. Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). See Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Plant Pest Act (PPA). See U.S. Department of Agriculture. Federal Seed Act. See U.S.
Personalized medicine is a fantastic opportunity to take a "one size fits all" approach to diagnostics and drug therapy and prevention and turn it into an individualized approach. We all are similar, of course, but we are also different.
In the early to mid-1990s, the widespread adoption of a novel drug design technique called combinatorial chemistry revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry.
The R plasmid conveys drug resistance on cells having it. As many as 10 resistance genes can be contained on a single R plasmid.
The entire process of bringing a new drug to market involves years of laboratory research and development, animal trials, toxicity testing and, finally, clinical trials.
The science of understanding the correlation between an individual patient's genetic make-up (genotype) and their response to drug treatment. Some drugs work well in some patient populations and not as well in others.
Temp peaks correspond to bursting of red blood cells
Anti-malarial drug chloroquine lowers fever; reduces number of parasites
Increasing resistance to the drug / combined drugs used
High mutation rate / memory cells or vaccines useless ...
Bacteria may become resistant to an antibiotic because the bacteria contain genes that confer drug resistance. Frequently these drug resistant genes are carried by natural plasmids.
Mutations enable HIV to avoid treatments that involve only one drug, so there is growing use of multiple-drug therapies in which both a protease inhibitor AND a reverse transcript inhibitor are combined.
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Pharmaceutical companies are developing techniques to produce chemicals using animals. The drug is produced in the milk of females. For example, goats have been developed to produce antithrombin III, used to prevent blood clots.
Mucilaginous material in cell walls is source of agar used to make drug capsules, dental impressions, and cosmetics. Agar is also a major microbiological media, and when purified, is a gel for electrophoresis.
antagonism of one organism toward another; a drug, derived chiefly from fungi and bacteria
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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A substance added to a drug product formulation which affects the action of the active ingredient in a predictable way ...
- A plant hormone used by humans as a drug to treat skin infections
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The study of the interaction of an individual's genetic makeup and response to a drug.
Phenocopy
A trait not caused by inheritance of a gene but appears to be identical to a genetic trait.
Labeling of foods: The process of developing a list of ingredients contained in foods. Labels imply that the list of ingredients can be verified. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has jurisdiction over what is stated on food labels.
Plasmids have been shown to be instrumental in the transmission of special properties, such as antibiotic drug resistance, resistance to heavy metals, and virulence factors necessary for infection of animal or plant hosts.
You must take all the pills given to you, do not stop taking the antibiotic even though you may feel better. Stopping the medication prior to using the entire prescription allows the bacteria that are resistant to the drug to survive.
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