dual therapy – using 2 drugs together.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
biopsy – taking a small sample of body tissue for examination and testing in the laboratory.
mitochondria – energy producing factories that live inside other cells.
in vitro – a study in a test tube. Literally, ‘in glass’.
T1/2 (half-life) – the time taken a drug to clear from the highest concentration to half this level. Drugs have different half-lives in different compartments (ie half-life in blood can be different from the half-life inside a cell). It take 5 x the half-live for a drug to be considered cleared.