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Editorial
. 2024 Mar 1;17(3):323.
doi: 10.3390/ph17030323.

Glycomimetics and Glycoconjugates in Drug Discovery

Nuno M Xavier  1 , Peter R Andreana  2
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Editorial

Glycomimetics and Glycoconjugates in Drug Discovery

Nuno M Xavier et al. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). .

Abstract

This Special Issue of Pharmaceuticals presents one review and six original articles that are demonstrative of the importance of glycomimetics and glycoconjugates as privileged groups of carbohydrate-based molecules in the search for and development of bioactive substances for therapeutic/pharmaceutical purposes [...].

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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