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Review
. 2006 Oct;5(10):821-34.
doi: 10.1038/nrd2132.

Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

Peter Imming  1 , Christian Sinning, Achim Meyer
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Review

Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets

Peter Imming et al. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2006 Oct.

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  • Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2007 Feb;6(2):126

Abstract

What is a drug target? And how many such targets are there? Here, we consider the nature of drug targets, and by classifying known drug substances on the basis of the discussed principles we provide an estimation of the total number of current drug targets.

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