You Are Researching an "Orphan Disease" with No Available Treatment

question 71

Multiple Choice

You are researching an "orphan disease" with no available treatment.Your lab develops a drug that mimics a lipophilic hormone thought to be lacking in the disease,and you are looking for a pharmaceutical company to partner with to run a clinical trial.Based on the reaction from each team,which would you choose to work with?

• A)Company A: "What you've developed is wonderful,but we'll need to develop a delivery system to get the drug across the cell membrane."
• B)Company B: "Your new drug seems very promising.Do you know which G-protein coupled receptor it binds to?"
• C)Company C: "We're interested in developing this drug - it could really help people.Do you know which genes the hormone regulates?"

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Definitions:

Fiber

A type of complex carbohydrate that the body cannot digest, found in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes, important for digestive health.

Daily Recommendation

Guidelines or advice on the amount or the type of something that should be consumed or done daily for health or wellbeing.

Essential Nutrient

Nutrients required for normal body functioning that cannot be synthesized by the body and must be obtained from a dietary source.

Cells

The smallest living units of structure and function.