Sci Prog. 2014;97(Pt 1):1-19. doi: 10.3184/003685014X13898980185076.
Metals have been considered for millennia to have medicinal values. With the advent of modern medicine, many metal-based drugs have proven to be highly effective in the clinic. Many different metal ions have shown activity against a range of diseases. The unique electronic structure of transition metals offers great versatility, not always seen in organic drugs, in terms of the ability to tune the properties of a given molecule. This review gives a brief overview of the most established therapeutic metals, and their more common applications, such as platinum-based anticancer drugs. New developments within the field of metallodrugs and novel strategies being employed to improve methods of delivery, are also discussed.
千百年来,人们一直认为金属具有药用价值。随着现代医学的出现,许多基于金属的药物已被证明在临床上非常有效。许多不同的金属离子对一系列疾病都表现出了活性。过渡金属独特的电子结构提供了很大的多功能性,这在有机药物中并不常见,因为它能够调整给定分子的性质。本文简要概述了最常用的治疗性金属及其更常见的应用,如铂类抗癌药物。本文还讨论了金属药物领域的新进展以及为改善药物输送方法而采用的新策略。