December 13, 2013 Dictionary Online Adverse Drug Reactions Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are types of adverse drug events (ADEs). ADEs include ADRs, medication errors, and other drug-related problems. ADEs are the negative Read More
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Dictionary Online Drug Tolerance December 9, 2013 Tolerance may be defined as either (1) the loss of effect over time to the same dose of a drug Read More
Dictionary Online Idiosyncrasy December 9, 2013 A few individuals respond to drugs in a highly unusual and unpredictable manner, giving a response quantitatively much different than Read More
Dictionary Online The FDA November 13, 2013 In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the development of new drug products and their subsequent Read More
Dictionary Online Aptamers November 13, 2013 An aptamer is a single-stranded oligonucleotide that binds to and inactivates a specific target, usually a protein. Several properties of Read More
Dictionary Online Biopharmaceuticals & Biologics November 12, 2013 Biopharmaceuticals are defined as substances produced in living systems by biotechnology and used for therapeutic purposes or in vivo diagnostics. Read More
Dictionary Online Therapeutic Antibodies November 12, 2013 Therapeutic antibodies are precisely targeted biopharmaceuticals that recognize and bind to a cell surface antigen and then trigger a biological Read More
Dictionary Online Green and Sustainable Pharmacy November 9, 2013 Green pharmacy is the design of pharmaceutical products and processes that eliminate or reduce significantly the use and generation of Read More
Dictionary Online Designer Drug November 9, 2013 A term coined by Gary Henderson, contemporary pharmacologist, meaning an illicitly produced drug of abuse whose structure is a modification Read More
Dictionary Online Pharmacogenomics November 9, 2013 Pharmacogenomics is the study of the effect of an individual’s genetic inheritance, their genome, on the body’s response to drugs. Read More
Dictionary Online Pharmacogenetics November 8, 2013 The field of pharmacogenetics, which is about 40 years old, is the study of genetically determined variability in the response Read More