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Implementation of In Vitro Drug Resistance Assays: Maximizing the Potential for Uncovering Clinically Relevant Resistance Mechanisms
Published on: December 9, 2015
Application of in silico approaches to predicting drug--drug interactions
1Lilly Research Laboratories, Lilly Corporate Center, Drop Code 1730, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA. ekins_sean@lilly.com
Abstract:
In an environment driven to find the next blockbuster drug, failure years into a project should not be an option. Recent studies have shown that poor absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME), and the related properties of toxicity and pharmacokinetics are responsible for a large proportion of failures. One way to understand and potentially predict molecules likely to be successful in humans as drugs from an ADME point of view is to use simulations. Such simulations may include simple rule-based approaches, structure--activity relationships, three-dimensional quantitative structure--activity relationships (3D-QSAR), and pharmacophores. All of these represent useful tools in understanding metabolism by the cytochromes P450, predicting drug--drug interactions (DDIs), and other pharmacokinetic parameters. The present paper briefly reviews the application of some computational tools applied to predicting DDIs and will provide the reader with an idea of their utility.
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