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  Review: Prodrug Concept in Drug Design

  By Nada Abdelnasser Elsharif

  Abstract: AbstractIn the world of drug discovery and development, prodrugs have become a powerful method for improving biopharmaceutical, physicochemical or pharmacokinetic properties of pharmacologically active agents. The purpose of this review is to provide some types of prodrugs which are bioreversible derivatives of drug molecules that undergo an enzymatic and/or chemical transformation in vivo to release the active parent drug, which can then exert the desired pharmacological effect. The target of …

  Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Pharmaceutical Science · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 22–28 Read article →