A diagnostic reagent for use in the evaluation of a pharmacological effect of a medicine containing a pharmaceutical agent including an enzyme, an enzyme inhibitor or a receptor ligand or a prodrug of the pharmaceutical agent; and a method of screening pharmaceutical agents each comprising an enzyme, an enzyme inhibitor or a receptor ligand and/or prodrugs of the pharmaceutical agents for one or ones having high medicative efficacy and/or a small side effect are provided. The diagnostic reagent and the reagent used in the method comprise: (a) a compound which serves as a substrate for the enzyme contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated or for an enzyme generated from the prodrug contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (b) a compound which serves as a substrate for a different enzyme capable of exhibiting an alteration in activity by coupling to the effect of the enzyme in (a), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (c) a compound which serves as a substrate for an enzyme which is directly inhibited by the enzyme inhibitor contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated or by an enzyme inhibitor generated from the prodrug contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (d) a compound which serves as a substrate for an enzyme capable of exhibiting an alteration in activity by coupling to the effect of the enzyme inhibitor in (c), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; (e) a compound which serves as a substrate for an enzyme capable of exhibiting an alteration in activity by the binding between a receptor and the receptor ligand contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated or a receptor ligand generated from the prodrug contained in the medicine or the pharmaceutical agent to be evaluated, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; or (f) a labeled form of any one of the substances (a) to (e).
本发明提供了一种诊断试剂,用于评估含有药剂(包括酶、酶
抑制剂或受体
配体或药剂的原药)的药物的药理作用;以及一种筛选药剂的方法,筛选出一种或多种药效高和/或副作用小的药剂,每种药剂都包括酶、酶
抑制剂或受体
配体和/或药剂的原药。诊断试剂和方法中使用的试剂包括(a) 作为待评价的药物或药剂中所含酶或由待评价的药物或药剂中所含原药生成的酶的底物的化合物,或其药学上可接受的盐; (b) 作为能通过与(a)中酶的作用偶联而显示活性改变的不同酶的底物的化合物,或其药学上可接受的盐;(c) 作为一种酶的底物的化合物,该酶被待评价的药物或药剂中所含的酶
抑制剂或 由待评价的药物或药剂中所含的原药生成的酶
抑制剂直接抑制,或其药学上可接 受的盐;(d) 作为酶底物的化合物,该酶能通过与(c)中酶
抑制剂的作用偶联而显示活性的改变,或其药学上可接受的盐;(e) 可作为酶底物的化合物,通过受体与待评价药物或药剂中所含受体
配体或由待 评价药物或药剂中所含原药生成的受体
配体之间的结合而显示出活性的改变, 或其药学上可接受的盐;或 (f) (a)至(e)中任何一种物质的标记形式。