Polypharmacology

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape."

Etymology

From poly- + pharmacology.

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