| abstract |
There are described therapeutically active compounds or salts or solvates thereof, hydrolysable in human or animal blood to compounds with reduced therapeutic activity. There is also described a method of identifying a compound capable of providing a therapeutic effect at a target site within a human or animal body with reduced systemic potency to said body comprising evaluating the half-life of said compound in the presence of human serum paraoxonase. Suitable compounds have a half-life of less than 1 hour. |