Abstract：
:For drug discovery, historical experience is always of significance. Through examining the history of traditional medicines, we find that these medicines have more implications for drug discovery than just providing new chemical entities. The history of traditional medicines indicates that they depended more on the combination of natural agents than on screening new agents to find new remedies. This phenomenon suggests that shifting the current drug discovery paradigm from 'finding new-entity drugs' to 'combining existing agents' may be helpful for overcoming the 'more investment, fewer drugs' challenge. We show that clues to finding antidementia combinatorial drugs can be derived from traditional medicine formulae. It seems that to create a brighter future of drug discovery, we would better go back to history.
journal_name
Drug Discov Todayjournal_title
Drug discovery todayauthors
Kong DX,Li XJ,Zhang HYdoi
10.1016/j.drudis.2008.07.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-02-01 00:00:00pages
115-9issue
3-4eissn
1359-6446issn
1878-5832pii
S1359-6446(08)00263-8journal_volume
14pub_type
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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