The question of putative mechanisms of action continues to haunt psychopharmacology. Put simply, we know these drugs work, but we have very little idea how. We make guesses based on the ...

The international consulting firm Clarivate makes its bet among the novelties ready for the medicine cabinet this year: three ...

Knowledge of a drug's mechanism of action enables better dosing through monitoring of the drug's effects on the target pathway in the patient. For example, the proper statin dosage for a given ...

Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood ... ethanol and psychotropic drugs. Numerous experimental studies suggest that it acts as a free radical scavenger, with other liver-specific ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking method to test how thousands of active substances influence cellular metabolism ...

This milestone marks a breakthrough after unsuccessful attempts to develop painkillers without the addictive potential of opioids.

Researchers at the University of Basel are able to test in parallel the effects of over 1,500 active substances on cell ...

Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose ...

Methylphenidate HCl 10mg, 20mg; ext-rel tabs. The mechanism of action of methylphenidate is not completely understood, but it presumably activates the brain stem arousal system and cortex to ...