Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Radiopharmaceuticals

A biopharmaceutical, also called as a biological medical product, biological, or biologic, is any pharmaceutical drug product manufactured in, extort from, or semi synthesized from biological sources. Different from chemically synthesized pharmaceuticals, they consists of vaccines, blood, blood components, allergenics, somatic cells, gene therapies, tissues, recombinant therapeutic protein, and living cells used in cell therapy. Biologics can be composed of sugars, proteins, or nucleic acids or complex combinations of these materials, or may be living cells or tissues. They are isolated from natural sources—human, animal, or microorganism

Medicinal radiocompounds or radiopharmaceuticals are a group of pharmaceutical drugs which having radioactivity. Radiopharmaceuticals are used as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. Radio pharmacology is the branch of pharmacology that specializes in these agents.