Anatomy and physiology

Anatomy (from the Greek ?νατομ?α anatomia, from ?νατ?μνειν ana: separate, apart from, and temnein, to cut up, cut open) is a branch of biology that is the consideration of the structure of living things.

                                  Drug latentation

                                         Soft drugs

                    Extraction from natural resource

Mankind has used extracts from animal and plant sources from treatment of various, disorder from centuries.

Recently folk medicine around the world has been extensively explored.

                                   Random screening

In this method all compounds i.e. both synthetic chemical and plant /animal/ marine product from given series were tested

                                    Serendipity

Some drugs or new uses of known drugs were discovered by accident either in lab or by investigation. And this type of accidental discovery of the drug is known as serendipity.

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                                   DRUG DESIGNING

Drug designing involves study of effect of biologically active compound on the basic of molecular interaction in terms of molecular structure or its physicochemical property involved.

                                  Medicinal Chemistry

                            Mixing

Definition: Process that results in randomization of dissimilar particles within a system.

Illustration of the concept of mixing: