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Steven Whitebread1, Berengere Dumotier2, Duncan Armstrong1
1Preclinical Safety, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Abstract:
Secondary pharmacology is an essential component of drug discovery and is used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry for achieving optimal specificity of new drugs via early hazard identification and off-target mitigation. The importance of this discipline has been achieved by increasing its translational value, based on the recognition of biological target-drug molecule-adverse drug reaction (ADR) associations and integration of secondary pharmacology data with pharmacokinetic parameters. Information obtained from clinical ADRs, from recognition of specific phenotypes of animal models and from hereditary diseases provides increasing regulatory confidence in the target-based approach to ADR prediction and mitigation. Here, we review the progress of secondary pharmacology during the past decade and highlight and demonstrate its applications and impact in drug discovery.
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