Prototype drug

In pharmacology and pharmaceutics, a prototype drug is an individual drug that represents a drug class – group of medications having similar chemical structures, mechanism of action and mode of action. Prototypes are the most important, and typically the first developed drugs within the class, and are used as a reference to which all other drugs are compared.[1][2]

  1. ^ Brophy, Kathleen Marion; Scarlett-Ferguson, Heather; Webber, Karen S. (1 February 2010). Clinical Drug Therapy for Canadian Practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-60547-517-2.
  2. ^ Bronwen Jean Bryant; Kathleen Mary Knights (2011). Pharmacology for Health Professionals. Elsevier Australia. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7295-3929-6.