In Vivo magnetic resonance techniques and drug discovery
The long and resource intensive process of drug discovery and development is confronted with the basic challenge of providing effective and safe therapies at reasonably low costs. The better the mechanism of a disease is known, the higher the probability to find an appropriate therapy. Also, the better and earlier a disease can be diagnosed and characterized, the higher the chance to be able to interfere in this process with a chemical entity. This reasoning sets the framework for the use of imaging in drug discovery. We discuss the relevance of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy to derive anatomical, functional, metabolic and target-related information in the context of pharmacological research in vivo.
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Física
2006
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332006000100006 |
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