Advances in Molecular Activity of Potential Drugs
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 February 2022) | Viewed by 41888
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Dear Colleagues,
An aging population, the appearance of new viral, bacterial, fungal or cancer diseases, and insufficiently effective methods of treating existing diseases make it necessary to discover new drugs and to refine those that are already in use. Investigations into new drugs include research on both newly synthesized, novel compounds and those isolated from plants or secreted by microorganisms. Discovering the full molecular mechanisms of drugs or potential drugs is extremely important in terms of improving the quality of treatment and predicting the side effects of long-term treatment. The many years that have been spent searching for the molecular activity of drugs make sense in the context of extending their application. It is also important to look for drugs that will work synergistically. In research on the molecular activity of drugs and potential drugs, both model organisms and cell lines are applied, which helps to obtain many valuable results in a relatively short time.
The new Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences will be devoted to advances in the molecular activity of potential drugs. We invite papers that are related to the broadly understood progress in the field of investigating new compounds, potential drugs, and drugs that are already used in therapies. We encourage you to submit works carried out on model organisms, cell lines, animals, and as part of clinical trials. Research showing new molecular activities of already used drugs, as well as on compounds, that are potential drugs are welcome. It is also important for this field of research to search for synergisms to find compounds that, when used together, act strongly and more efficiently in the therapy. Review articles summarizing published works are also very valuable for drawing conclusions and searching for further ways of research.
We look forward to your contributions and thank you for them in advance.
Dr. Magdalena Cal
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- potential drugs
- drugs
- molecular mechanism of action
- cell cycle
- stress response
- cell lines
- model organisms
- clinical tests
- diseases
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