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TARGET DISCOVERY [7 records]

Record 1 2025-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pharmacology
  • Biotechnology
  • Applications of Automation
CONT

Computer-aided drug discovery [involves] using computer algorithms to find the correct composition of a drug, develop the drug, and analyze its performance on a biological target.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pharmacologie
  • Biotechnologie
  • Automatisation et applications

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Farmacología
  • Biotecnología
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
Key term(s)
  • descubrimiento de fármacos asistido por computadora
  • descubrimiento in silico de fármacos
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Record 2 2025-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Pharmacology
CONT

A biological target is a specific molecule or cellular component that is involved in a disease and is selected as the focus of a drug discovery project. Medicinal chemists design drugs that bind to this target in order to treat the disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Pharmacologie
DEF

Agent pathogène ou structure endogène qui, dans une situation pathologique, fait l'objet d'un traitement thérapeutique chez l'homme ou chez l'animal.

OBS

cible thérapeutique : désignation et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 5 janvier 2023.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
  • Farmacología
CONT

La enfermedad de Alzheimer está caracterizada por la aparición progresiva en el cerebro de unos depósitos o placas constituidas principalmente por péptido β amiloide. [...] Las enzimas β- g-secretasa, implicadas en la formación del péptido β amiloide, y la agregación de este péptido constituyen las principales dianas biológicas de muchas compañías farmacéuticas que pretenden desarrollar terapias modificadoras de esta enfermedad.

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Record 3 2021-06-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Counter-Measures (Military operations)
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
CONT

Usually, the data is obtained by using drones or satellite reconnaissance means. Therefore, the acquired data is redundant and diverse. For the problem of camouflage detection, the traditional camouflage effect detection application personnel interpret the discovery probability of the target, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

OBS

camouflage detection; CD: designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Contre-mesures (Opérations militaires)
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
OBS

détection du camouflage; CD : désignations normalisées par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
CONT

Sutent (SU11248) is a relatively "dirty" drug (in that it hits multiple targets) and has some affinity for 74 different kinases. PTK787 was one of the "cleanest" drugs tested in this study ... Being a "dirty" drug is not necessarily a bad thing. … The trick is that most cancers have more than one target. They might have five or six targets and you have to knock out three to stop the cancer ...

CONT

The rationale for multi-target drugs has been strengthened both on theoretical and empirical grounds. Serious diseases that are intractable to treatment were found to have multiple pathogenic factors and examples of successful drugs were shown to affect multiple disease targets. The salient features of multiple-target drugs, low target affinity and rapid binding kinetics, have been responsible for their late discovery and slow development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
CONT

La première activité décrite du sorafénib était celle d'inhibiteur de sérine/thréonine kinase de la protéine Raf-1. Par la suite, les autres cibles ont été successivement identifiées. En bloquant plusieurs voies de transduction différentes, ces médicaments multicibles présentent donc l'intérêt d'avoir une action prédominante sur l'angiogenèse mais aussi sur la prolifération cellulaire et l'apoptose.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmacology
  • Biotechnology
CONT

Nearly every drug molecule works through a structural interaction with a "target" or "receptor" molecule or protein that plays key roles in all biological processes. In the most common model for this interaction, the drug molecule inserts itself into a functionally important crevice of its target protein, like a key in a lock. The molecule then binds there and either induces or, more commonly, inhibits the protein's normal function. This universal drug-target scheme suggests a powerful alternative approach to drug discovery : if it were possible to identify, in advance, the appropriate protein target for a given therapeutic need and if enough were known about the distinguishing structure of that target protein, it ought to be feasible to design the structure of an ideal drug to interact with it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Pharmacologie
  • Biotechnologie
CONT

La discipline [...] «Bio-informatique du médicament» recouvre les activités suivantes : analyser et exploiter les génomes pour identifier les classes structurales et fonctionnelles d'intérêt thérapeutique; [...] modéliser les protéines-cibles dont la structure n'est pas accessible expérimentalement [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bioquímica
  • Farmacología
  • Biotecnología
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Record 7 1999-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
CONT

Combinatorial chemistry is based on the simple premise that the greater the diversity of compounds tested, the better the chance of finding on that can be developed into a drug... Combinatorial chemistry can improve drug discovery by increasing the efficiency with which novel leads are generated; assisting the optimization of previously identified leads; generating molecules for target validation, independent in their value as potential drug candidates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
CONT

La chimie combinatoire au service de la puissance et de la sélectivité des interactions intermoléculaires : la possibilité de recréer au laboratoire des mélanges de molécules pouvant contenir des milliers, voire des millions de molécules originales, grâce aux approches de synthèse combinatoire sur support solide, a bouleversé ces cinq dernières années les pratiques de nombreux laboratoires s'intéressant au développement de nouveaux composés doués d'activité biologique.

OBS

Ces approches ont pris un essor considérable dans le domaine de l'industrie pharmaceutique. Il y a lieu cependant de souligner que ces méthodes permettent d'aborder sous un nouvel angle les problèmes liés à la reconnaissance intermoléculaire. En effet, à la différence des démarches fondées sur le criblage de substances naturelles, la nature et la diversité des molécules synthétisées par les approches combinatoires peuvent être totalement contrôlées.

Spanish

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