Concept information
Preferred term
Prodrugs
Type
-
mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- A compound that, on administration, must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming the pharmacologically active drug for which it is a prodrug.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Drug Precursor
- Drug Precursors
- Pro-Drug
- Prodrug
- Pro-Drugs
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- administration & dosage (Qualifier)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- analysis (Qualifier)
- chemical synthesis (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- isolation & purification (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- pharmacokinetics (Qualifier)
- pharmacology (Qualifier)
- poisoning (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- supply & distribution (Qualifier)
- therapeutic use (Qualifier)
- toxicity (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Bioprécurseurs
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Précurseurs de médicaments
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LJNRL7QW-G
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