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Trends in GPCR drug discovery: new agents, targets and indications

This study sheds new light on drug metabolism by using DrugBank to report an analysis of all drugs and agents currently in clinical trials that act via G protein-coupled receptors.

Hauser, Attwood, Rask-Andersen, Schiöth, Gloriam · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 27 October 2017

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