polypharmacology

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ pharmacology

Noun

polypharmacology (plural polypharmacologies)

  1. The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
    • 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape.
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