BLG 699 Lecture 1: BLG 699 Week 1
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Overview of drug discovery and development: drugs, discovery and development process, pharmaceutical industry, economics, trends, summary. Wiley-blackwell, component, part or accessory of a device. Ethical drugs: prescribed by the physicians, take long time to bring them to market. Over the counter drugs: not prescribed, can be bought from pharmacies, long history, deemed safe & can be taken without supervision by physicians. Drug discovery and development process: history, drug development process. History of early drugs or fold medicines: not just physical remedies, associated with religious and spiritual meanings, sages or religious leaders were administrators, derived from plant materials, supplemented by animal materials and minerals, discovered by trial and error. Traditional chinese medicines: originated in the times of the legendary emperor sheng nongin 3500 bc, a story of sheng nong, snake and san qi plant, san qi-panaxnotoginseng. Ingredient for the well-known tcm herbal formula known as yunnan baiyao. Egyptian medicines: the eberspapyrus (from around 3000 bc) provided 877 prescriptions and recipes for.
