Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets
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- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Vol. 5 (10) , 821-834
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd2132
Abstract
What is a drug target? And how many such targets are there? Here, we consider the nature of drug targets, and by classifying known drug substances on the basis of the discussed principles we provide an estimation of the total number of current drug targets.Keywords
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