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Drug-drug cocrystals: Opportunities and challenges
Xiaojuan Wang1, Shuzhang Du1, Rui Zhang1
1Department of Phamacy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China.
Abstract:
Recently, drug-drug cocrystal attracts more and more attention. It offers a low risk, low-cost but high reward route to new and better medicines and could improve the physiochemical and biopharmaceutical properties of a medicine by addition of a suitable therapeutically effective component without any chemical modification. Having so many advantages, to date, the reported drug-drug cocrystals are rare. Here we review the drug-drug cocrystals that reported in last decade and shed light on the opportunities and challenges for the development of drug-drug cocrystals.
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