Endocrine Abstracts

Several of currently used drugs are chiral compounds. Majority of them are clinically administered as a racemic (equimolar) mixture of enantiomers. Individual enantiomers of one drug can qualitatively and quantitatively differ in their biological activities (pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, etc.). Therefore, enantiopure drugs have been developed and introduced to the therapy. Statins are drugs used to lower cholesterol levels by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reducta...