
1) Medicinal chemistry
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A pharmacophore is an abstract description of molecular features which are necessary for molecular recognition of a ligand by a biological macromolecule. The IUPAC defines a pharmacophore to be `an ensemble of steric and electronic features that is necessary to ensure the optimal supramolecular interactions with a specific biological target and t....
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A pharmacophore is the ensemble of steric and electronic features that is necessary to ensure the optimal supramolecular interactions with a specific biological target structure and to trigger (or to block) its biological response. A pharmacophore does not represent a real molecule or a real association of functional groups, but a purely abstract c...
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The ensemble of steric and electronic factors which are necessary to ensure supramolecular interactions with a specific biological target structure.
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A pharmacophore is the ensemble of steric and electronic features that is necessary to ensure the optimal supramolecular interactions with a specific biological target structure and to trigger (or to block) its biological response. A pharmacophore does not represent a real molecule or a real association of functional groups, but a purely abstract ...
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The ensemble of steric and electronic factors which are necessary to ensure supramolecular interactions with a specific biological target structure.
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Specific 3D arrangement of chemical groups common to active molecules and essential to their biological activities.
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(fahr´mә-ko-for″) the group of atoms in the molecule of a drug responsible for the drug's action.
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pharmacophore 1. The part of a molecule causing the specific physiological effects of a drug. 2. A group of atoms believed to represent the critical region within a molecule that is responsible for the pharmacologic activity of the compound.
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