How do drugs know where to go in the body? Why some medications are swallowed, others are injected - News24
6/29/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Tom Anchordoquy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
by Tom Anchordoquy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Researchers can chemically modify drug molecules to make sure that they bind strongly to the places we want them and weakly to the places we don’t.
When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate the pain? The short answer is, it doesn’t: Molecules can’t transport themselves through the body,… [+5349 chars]
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