Look up: Pro-drug


  1. Prodrug
    A chemical structure that undergoes conversion to an active drug within a biological system, such conversion usually involving metabolism.
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  2. prodrug
    Precursor converted to an active form of a drug within the body. [2]
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  3. Prodrug
    A prodrug is any compound that undergoes biotransformation before exhibiting its pharmacological effects. Prodrugs can thus be viewed as drugs containing specialized non-toxic protective groups used in a transient manner to alter or to eliminate undesirable properties in the parent molecule . (See ...
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  4. Prodrug
    Prodrug: A precursor (forerunner) of a drug. A prodrug must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming an active pharmacological agent. For example, sulfasalazine is a prodrug. It is not active in its ingested form. It has to be broken down by bacteria in the colon into two p...
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  5. prodrug
    A compound that is converted within the body into its active form that has medical effects. Prodrugs useful when the active drug may be too toxic to administer ter systemically, the active drug is absorbed poorly by the digestive tract, or the body breaks down the active drug before it reaches its t...
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  6. prodrug
    (pro´drәg) a compound that, on administration, must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming an active pharmacological agent; a precursor of a drug.
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  7. Prodrug
    A prodrug is a pharmacological substance (drug) administered in an inactive (or significantly less active) form. Once administered, the prodrug is metabolised in vivo into an active metabolite, a process termed bioactivation. The rationale behind the use of a prodrug is generally for absorption, di...
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  8. prodrug
    Type: Term Pronunciation: prō′drŭg Definitions: 1. A class of drugs, the pharmacologic action of which results from conversion by metabolic processes within the body (biotransformation).
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  9. Prodrug
    A chemical structure that undergoes conversion to an active drug within a biological system, such conversion usually involving metabolism.
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  10. prokinetic drug
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. agent that promotes intestinal peristalsis.
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=26725

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