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ReviewJournal of medicinal chemistry2020

Essential Medicinal Chemistry of Essential Medicines.

Marta Serafini, Sarah Cargnin, Alberto Massarotti, Tracey Pirali, Armando A Genazzani

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Review in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Network-based prediction and real-world patient data observation identify doxycycline as a repurposable drug in Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  3. Polysubstituted Pyridines from 1,4-Oxazinone Precursors.The Journal of organic chemistry · 2024
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  6. Facile Synthesis ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  10. Access and use of WHO essential medicines in Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marta SerafiniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Sarah CargninDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Alberto MassarottiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9306-8845
Tracey PiraliDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3936-4787
Armando A GenazzaniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1923-7430
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since 1977, the World Health Organization publishes a list of essential medicines, i.e., those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population and are selected with regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of clinical efficacy, and safety, as well as comparative costs and cost-effectiveness. The Essential Medicines List (EML) is an invaluable tool for all countries to select those medicines that have an excellent risk/benefit ratio and that are reputed to be of pivotal importance to health. In the present perspective, we describe the chemical composition and the main features of the small molecules that are included in the EML, spanning from their origin, to their stereochemistry and measure of drug-likeness. Most and foremost, we wish to disseminate the importance of the EML, which can be both a helpful teaching tool in an ever-expanding world of medicines and an inspiration for those involved in pharmaceutical R&D.

Indexed as

Chemistry, PharmaceuticalAdministration, OralDrugs, EssentialFormularies as TopicHumansInjectionsMolecular StructureStereoisomerismWorld Health OrganizationDrugs, Essential

Identifiers

PMID32352778
PMCPMC8007110
OpenAlexW3021755458

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Registered trials

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