| Literature DB >> 12546895 |
Michael H Abraham1, Adam Ibrahim, Andreas M Zissimos, Yuan H Zhao, John Comer, Derek P Reynolds.
Abstract
A drug can be characterized by "descriptors" that include size (volume) and H-bond acidity and H-bond basicity. These descriptors can be rapidly estimated from structure by a fragment scheme and used to predict physicochemical and transport properties of drug candidates (e.g. logP, solubility, gastrointestinal absorption, permeability and blood-brain distribution). The solvation equations can be interpreted to provide a qualitative chemical insight into biological partition and transport mechanisms. Applications to blood-brain partition and human intestinal absorption (HIA) are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12546895 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6446(02)02478-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Drug Discov Today ISSN: 1359-6446 Impact factor: 7.851