User talk:Daevatgl
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[edit] Pharmacology
Hello Daevatgl, I'm very pleased to have a drug man in our midst. I've been doing a fair bit of pharmacology lately, but find I lack the relevant knowledge and reading material (apart from my old pharmacology textbook, which is out of date). Take a glance at thiazolidinedione and its subpages, and imatinib. User:Ksheka (a cardiologist) has introduced a "box" that holds an image of a drug's chemical structure and some other vital information (see acetaminophen and amiodarone for examples). Please drop a line! JFW | T@lk 09:40, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind comments. Frankly, I was wondering if you might be interesting in the WikiProject "Drugs". This project could definitely do with your input! JFW | T@lk 00:17, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
You've done some great work on the macrolides (you'll see I've moved that page to the singular version). How do you draw molecules? I was trying to find a nice way of drawing some antifunghals (like nystatin and amphotericin B, which I wrote last week), but these big rings just don't come out well...
I'm thinking about writing up cromolyn and nedocromil, but first I need to find some good reference material. I've drawn the molecules already (I use OpenOffice.org).
The WikiProject has only started recently, and seems to lack direction at the moment. Perhaps we should consider some "article of the week" strategy, where we put lots of efforts in one particular drug (or class). My personal favourites are endocrine drugs (e.g. sulfonylurea). JFW | T@lk 21:13, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Hi. Just looked at your amphotericin and nystatin images. Are you sure they're correct? They seem to be identical, apart from the way you've drawn the hydroxy group at the top ???!??. I'll double-check when I've come back from my night shift... JFW | T@lk 19:50, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I havent read anything about amphotericin up to now... just about the nystatin: the image lacks stereo information. I've drawn another version for the german version of the page (which was just a little more than a stub, really, and probably still is - pity I didnt think of looking for the english version earlier) I'm a bit hazy about the details with pictures - how do you use the same picture in another language version of wikipedia? Btw, the drawing that where I copied my chemdraw-version from is [here] and [here] It's a bit difficult, as they show stereochemistry for different quartary atoms... There seems to by more than one Nystatin also (A1, A2 and A3)...
[edit] replaced your azithromycin drawing
Perhaps it was overly pedantic of me, but I replaced your azithromycin drawing with one that showed the directional bonds in the main lactone ring. --moof 23:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Your pethidine molecule is wrong! It has an ethyl ester group not a methyl!
