New international market for modern biotechnological products is extremely necessary, in terms of the increasing demands of worldwide people. Certainly, peptide products could be one of the kind, especially the polypeptide drugs. Polypeptide drugs are making an increasing contribution to human health. It’s reported that nervous system drugs, cardiovascular drugs, and anticancer drugs are the top three categories of prescription drugs. As for anticancer drugs, the protein peptide drugs might rank first.
In fact, most people are still relatively strange to polypeptide drugs. Polypeptide is made of a special peptide chain that contains less than one hundred amino acids, which is generally regarded as a kind of relatively small protein. It has many advantages like less side effects and quicker absorption. Currently, the research and development of global polypeptide drugs have been widely involved in massive realms, such as vaccines, anticancer drugs, cardiovascular drugs, anti-viral polypeptides, as well as antimicrobial peptides and diagnostic kits. Due to the fact that current general antibiotic resistance is growing, new polypeptide antibiotics are in strong demand.
Given the advance of polypeptide drugs, a large number of listed companies compete for a larger global market, try to promote their own polypeptide drugs. To be more specific, polypeptide drugs have also been used in the research of Alzheimer’s peptide vaccine. And there are many related projects to support the research. Even if future pharmaceutical market for this unique disease is huge ( I mean such drugs are potential), the difficulty during the development process should not be ignored. Almost all the researchers agree with the idea. Taking the experimental model as an example, it’s hard to find a proper model for the experiment. Because different types of models might be needed while it’s difficult to feed these animals. As for the small mice, specifications, quantity, and use of evaluation methods have high demands.
However, scientists haven’t found the most ideal model for animal tests’ polypeptide drugs. All the animal experiments are carried in the exploration. Briefly speaking, polypeptide drugs have played an important role in human health, so they should be payed enough concerns.