polypharmacology

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ pharmacology.

Noun

polypharmacology (plural polypharmacologies)

1. The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
   • 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape.