Plant Source Drugs
This illicit drug is obtained from a small gray-green cactus.
What is Peyote?
This hormone helps us grow to normal physical and mental maturity as well as maintain normal body metabolism.
What is Thyroxine?
The first phase of the discovery of a new drug is called this.
What is Candidate Identification?
This is the cost of the Phase 1 drug discovery trial
What is $10-$15 million?
The substance in a plant that is responsible for its pharmacological effects.
What is the Active Ingredient?
Throughout history, these are the two main ways that humans have used plants as drugs.
What are religious rituals and medicine?
Some women are infertile due to the fact that their pituitary gland does not secrete __________?
What is Gonadotropin.
This is where LaMattina states that most drug discoveries originate from.
What are universities or research institutes?
This is the total cost of a drug to complete all trials (pre phases and phases).
What is $425-$945 million?
The phrase recombinant DNA technology can also be stated as _____ - ______.
What is Gene-splicing
This drug comes from a woody shrub with bright green leaves and red berries.
What is Cocaine?
This hormone is known to prevent thinning of the bones (osteoporosis).
What is Estrogen?
This happens to a great majority of researchers who dedicate most of their life to discovering new drugs.
What is never seeing their new medication in the marketplace?
The main reason that drug development costs so much money.
What is a high failure rate?
This kind of research institution often discovers drug targets, but not the actual drugs.
What is Academia?
This drug has been used in cold preparations to dry secretions of the mouth, nose, and bronchi. It is used to reduce secretions and mobility of the GI tract.
What is Atropine?
This is the number of amino acids that make up the human growth hormone molecule.
What is 191.
Jean-Pierre Garnier said that it is more difficult to discover and develop a new ________ than it is to put a man on the moon.
What is medicine.
LaMattina disagrees with the statement that the pharamaceutical industry spends more money on _________ than research.
What is marketing?
Modern plant scientists are also called this.
What is a Pharmacognosist?
Other than being used in treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, the vinca alkaloids can also be used in the treatment of this neoplastic disorder.
What is Hodgkin's disease?
This was the year that Charles Best and Fred Banting proved that the pancreas was the source of the hormone that could "cure" diabetes.
What is 1921.
This protein was the main focus of a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine that prompted 17 years of research at Pfizer and other companies.
What is a cholesteryl-ester transfer protein (CETP).
This is the annual United States sales price for drugs that come from plants according to Ken Liska.
What is $10 billion?
According to LaMattina, critics say pharma develops too many of these “copycat” drugs instead of innovative ones.
What are "me-too" drugs?