polypharmacology

noun

The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug

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Meanings

nounpolypharmacology (plural polypharmacologies)

plural polypharmacologies

  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.

    2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From poly- + pharmacology.

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