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The Role of QSAR and Virtual Screening Studies in Type 2 Diabetes Drug Discovery
Simone Q Pantaleao1, Drielli G V Fujii2, Vinicius G Maltarollo3
1Federal University of ABC, 09210-170, Santo Andre, SP. Brazil.
Background:
Due to the increasing number of diabetes cases worldwide, there is an international concern to provide even more effective treatments to control this condition.
Methods:
This review brings together a selection of studies that helped to broaden the comprehension of various biological targets and associated mechanisms involved in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Results:
Such studies demonstrated that QSAR techniques and virtual screenings have been successfully employed in drug design projects.
Conclusions:
Therefore, the main goal of this review is to give the state-of-art for the development of new drugs for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and to evaluate how computational tools, such as virtual screening and 3D-QSAR, can aid the development of new drugs with reduced adverse side effects.
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