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Medication: Any substance or combination of substances for treating or preventing disease in human, as well as product out that can be administered to humans or animals to establish a diagnosis or to restoring, correcting or modify their functions.
Whatever its form combines a drug:
An active (therapeutic)
A vehicle (no action against the disease, support the active ingredient)
With an adjuvant (facilitates the implementation, administration, or retention of the drug).
The origins of drugs:
A plant (herbal)
Ä animal (opotherapy)
Ä mineral (trace element, mercury, …)
Ä microbial origin (antibiotics, vaccines, …)
Ä synthetic origin (chemotherapy, …)
Ä biotechnological origin (laboratory, biogenetic engineering, …). (more…)

Mechanisms of Action
Steroids alter the synthesis of proteins therefore alter:

• Chemotaxis,
• Metabolism
• Expression (hormones, mediators).

Pharmacological Actions

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