Peptides and Peptidomimetics in Medicinal Chemistry
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Peptides show great pharmaceutical potential as active drugs and diagnostics in several clinical areas such as endocrinology, urology, obstetrics, oncology, etc. and as functional excipients in drug delivery systems to overcome tissue and cellular membrane barriers (Nestor, 2009). From a pharmaceutical point of view, peptides are situated somewhere between classical organic drug substances and high molecular weight biopharmaceuticals.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012