 Prodrugs
"Prodrugs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A compound that, on administration, must undergo chemical conversion by metabolic processes before becoming the pharmacologically active drug for which it is a prodrug.
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D011355
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.675
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| Concept/Terms |
Prodrugs- Prodrugs
- Pro-Drugs
- Pro Drugs
- Drug Precursors
- Precursors, Drug
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prodrugs" by people in Profiles.
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Panja S, Kapoor E, Siddhanta K, Jogdeo CM, Sil D, Khan RI, Kumari N, Ding L, Gendelman HE, Singh AB, Oupick? D. Bioactive polymers as stimulus-responsive anti-metastatic combination agents to treat pancreatic cancer. Biomaterials. 2025 Sep; 320:123255.
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Chakraborty N, Momirov J, Radakovic A, Chatterjee S, Kirchhoff AM, Kolb AL, West TJ, Sanchez BB, Martinez-Bartolome S, Saviola A, McClatchy D, Yates JR, Chen JS, Lairson LL, Felding BH, Boger DL. Insights into Free Drug Release from Efficacious N-Acyl O-Aminophenol Duocarmycin Prodrugs. ACS Chem Biol. 2025 02 21; 20(2):442-454.
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Rodriguez-Blanco J, Salvador AD, Suter RK, Swiderska-Syn M, Palomo-Caturla I, Kliebe V, Shahani P, Peterson K, Turos-Cabal M, Vieira ME, Wynn DT, Howell AJ, Yang F, Ban Y, McCrea HJ, Zindy F, Danis E, Vibhakar R, Jermakowicz A, Martin V, Coss CC, Harris BT, de Cubas A, Chen XS, Barnoud T, Roussel MF, Ayad NG, Robbins DJ. Triptolide and its prodrug Minnelide target high-risk MYC-amplified medulloblastoma in preclinical models. J Clin Invest. 2024 Jun 17; 134(15).
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Roy S, Curry SD, Corbella Bagot C, Mueller EN, Mansouri AM, Park W, Cha JN, Goodwin AP. Enzyme Prodrug Therapy with Photo-Cross-Linkable Anti-EGFR Affibodies Conjugated to Upconverting Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 2022 10 25; 16(10):15873-15883.
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Yu A, Tang S, Ding L, Foley J, Tang W, Jia H, Panja S, Holbert CE, Hang Y, Stewart TM, Smith LM, Sil D, Casero RA, Oupick? D. Hyaluronate-coated perfluoroalkyl polyamine prodrugs as bioactive siRNA delivery systems for the treatment of peritoneal cancers. Biomater Adv. 2022 May; 136:212755.
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McLeod JR, Harvey PA, Detweiler CS. An Oral Fluorouracil Prodrug, Capecitabine, Mitigates a Gram-Positive Systemic Infection in Mice. Microbiol Spectr. 2021 09 03; 9(1):e0027521.
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Al-Hilal TA, Hossain MA, Alobaida A, Alam F, Keshavarz A, Nozik-Grayck E, Stenmark KR, German NA, Ahsan F. Design, synthesis and biological evaluations of a long-acting, hypoxia-activated prodrug of fasudil, a ROCK inhibitor, to reduce its systemic side-effects. J Control Release. 2021 06 10; 334:237-247.
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Al-Zubaydi F, Gao D, Kakkar D, Li S, Holloway J, Szekely Z, Chan N, Kumar S, Sabaawy HE, Love S, Sinko PJ. Breast intraductal nanoformulations for treating ductal carcinoma in situ II: Dose de-escalation using a slow releasing/slow bioconverting prodrug strategy. Drug Deliv Transl Res. 2022 01; 12(1):240-256.
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Srinivasan S, Roy D, Chavas TEJ, Vlaskin V, Ho DK, Pottenger A, LeGuyader CLM, Maktabi M, Strauch P, Jackson C, Flaherty SM, Lin H, Zhang J, Pybus B, Li Q, Huber HE, Burke PA, Wesche D, Rochford R, Stayton PS. Liver-targeted polymeric prodrugs of 8-aminoquinolines for malaria radical cure. J Control Release. 2021 03 10; 331:213-227.
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Roy S, Brasino M, Beirne JM, Harguindey A, Chapnick DA, Liu X, Cha JN, Goodwin AP. Enzymes Photo-Cross-Linked to Live Cell Receptors Retain Activity and EGFR Inhibition after Both Internalization and Recycling. Bioconjug Chem. 2020 01 15; 31(1):104-112.
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