What is biochemical pharmacology?
Biochemical pharmacology is an industry of pharmacology research that studies how drugs affect living systems. This is done using objects of living animals and animal or human organs and tissues. It may also include elements of molecular pharmacology, where the study of protein interaction with drug molecules is used to determine how the drug will act inside the cell. Many supportive sciences are used in biochemical pharmacological research, including biophysics and biochemistry, and a study of the structure and physiology of the mammalty cell. This leads to the creation of many experimental drugs in the laboratory that is not intended for possible treatment of the disease, but instead are created primarily to test their reactions with normal biological processes. The focus on the direct biochemical effect of the human body began in the 1950s.
Research in biochemical pharmacology often includes other disciplines in pharmacology. For this reason also international organizations and magazines that focus on research in TThe areas also welcome and publish contributions from scientists in the field of behavioral and physiological pharmacology and toxicology. This often includes cancer research and a focus on the immune system through immunofharmacology. Any research involving various body systems related to drug interactions, from respiratory to cardiovascular or gastrointestinal systems, may have a direct effect on finding in biochemical pharmacology.
European Society of Biochemical Pharmacology (ESBP) and its scientific journal Biochemical pharmacology were created in the 1950s for further research of drug interactions with biological systems and initially ESBP only had 150 members. ESBP merged in 1984 with workshops of drug metabolism (DMW). These are groups of industrial and academic pharmacologists who sometimes conduct research led by the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) associated with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Drug metabolism workshops have been carried out in European, Asian and North American countries since 1970. Each workshop focused on one or several unique aspects of biochemical pharmacological studies. Examples include in vitro drug metabolism in laboratory blood vessels for enzymology, engaged in the biochemistry of enzyme action.
The next step towards the expansion of global partnerships in biochemical pharmacology has led to the ESBP also incorporating the International Society for the study of xenobiotics (ISSX) in 2007. Xenobiotics are characterized by chemicals such as drugs that are by their essence a foreign living organism. Since 2011, ISSX International Base has had more than 2,200 professional members involved in xenobiotics from more than 50 different countries