Concept information
Preferred term
pharmacological class
Definition
- A drug class is a set of medications and other compounds that have a similar chemical structures, the same mechanism of action (i.e. binding to the same biological target), a related mode of action, and/or are used to treat the same disease.
Narrower concepts
- antibiotic
- anticancer drug
- anticoagulant
- antidepressant
- antiepileptic drug
- antiplatelet
- antiviral drug
- contrast agent
- histone deacetylase inhibitor
- immune checkpoint inhibitor
- immunosuppressants
- opioids
- protein kinase inhibitor
- receptor antagonist
- retinoid
- statin
- tnf inhibitor
- tyrosine kinase inhibitor
Entry terms
- drug class
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/INS-MHFDDLS9-4
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