Alternatives to Animal Procedures in Drug Development
Received Date: Jun 24, 2016 / Accepted Date: Jun 27, 2016 / Published Date: Jun 30, 2016
Abstract
Drug discovery identifies new candidates for medications and drug development aims to deliver the efficient active pharmaceutical ingredient to the target side without causing adverse effects. In drug development animal studies usually represent an integrative part of the testing. In the past, animal procedures helped in salient discoveries of new drugs. Von Behring generated diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins in horses, Banting and Macleod identified the effect of insulin in dogs, Fleming tested penicillin in rats and Waksman verified the efficacy of streptomycin in chicken
Keywords: Transplantation surgery; Osteoporosis; Pharmacodynamics
Citation: Frohlich E (2016) Alternatives to Animal Procedures in Drug Development. J Mol Pharm Org Process Res 4: 132. Doi: 10.4172/2329-9053.1000132
Copyright: ©2016 Frohlich E. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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