Molecular Targeted Peptides/Chemicals as New Pharmacological Tool in Medicine
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 12000
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we all know the pharmaceutical market has been mainly characterized by active principle ingredients showing a pharmacology activity for a specific pathology but most of the time the molecular mechanism associated with its activity is not clear.
This describes, in principle, the old pharmacology framework in which several drugs have been identified in serendipity way to directly curative several pathologies. It is known that most of the drugs in the market have been derived mostly from the observation of the efficacy of plants on several pathologies. Now, the hypothetic way of developing a new drug should follow the basic research, identification of molecular targets, and preparation of potential drug leads able to interact with the molecular target.
The research field has become much more sophisticated, with opportunities to study new therapeutic approaches in a more specific way as it is shown from newly published molecules, such as cell-permeable peptides (CPPs), targeted peptides, small molecules, antibodies, etc.
Therefore, this Special Issue will publish cutting-edge research in this field and so we are calling for contributions from any authors active in this field.
Dr. Marco Feligioni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Cell permeable peptides
- Small molecules
- Targeted peptides
- Antibodies
- Drug developing strategies
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