{"term":{"id":"12644","title":"drug cocktail","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - drug cocktail","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.12644","code":"12644","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: drug combination","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"­(in drug therapy) Administration of two or more distinct pharmacological agents to achieve a combination of their individual effects.\nNote 1: The combined effect may be additive, synergistic, or designed to reduce side-effects.\nNote 2: This term is often used synonymously with that of 'drug combination' but is preferred in order to avoid confusion with medications in which different drugs are included in a single formulation.\n(in drug testing) Administration of two or more distinct compounds to test simultaneously their individual behaviours (e.g., pharmacological effects in high-throughput screens or drug metabolism).\n","sources":["PAC, 2013, 85, 1725. 'Glossary of terms used in medicinal chemistry. Part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1732 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-12-11-23)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12644\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12644\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/12644\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'drug cocktail' 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.12644","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-06-27T11:14:29+00:00"}}