13940 IUPAC Gold Book - pharmacological 10.1351/goldbook.13940 13940 current synonym: pharmacologic 1 Qualifiers for substances, including macromolecules or polymers, and actions involved in pharmacology. A pharmacological polymer can be bioactive by itself or because it is used as a temporary carrier of a bioactive substance of interest in pharmacology. bioactive https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13872 macromolecular prodrug https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13937 pharmacology https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13942 PAC, 2012, 84, 377. 'Terminology for biorelated polymers and applications (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 401 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-10-12-04) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13940/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13940/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13940/plain Citation: 'pharmacological' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13940 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-04T20:19:40+00:00