J Psychosoc Nurs Men

The most recent articles from: August 2009

  • J Psychosoc Nurs Men · Aug 2009

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    Clinical implications of chirality and stereochemistry in psychopharmacology.

    Chirality, the concept of nonsuperimposable mirror images, is a fundamental property of biological systems and can be observed on a molecular, cellular, or organism level. Stereoisomer compounds possess the same molecular and structural formula, but they differ in their three-dimensional configurations. ⋯ Racemates and their individual enantiomers can have very different pharmacological properties that are relevant in clinical psychopharmacology. Various examples of drug therapies that show the clinical importance of chirality and stereochemistry are described.

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