What is Antimicrobial Resistance?

Antimicrobial Resistance refers to a phenomenon where microbes have developed resistances to certain antibiotics due to genetic adaptations. This can be done:
- by resisting changes caused by drugs that can alter bacterial genetic information.
- by developing enzymes that can break down the drugs into safer compounds.
- by conjugation—passing drug resistances across organism species or by random mutations (which is more apparent for viruses.)
This arose due to the use of antibiotics in almost anything disease-related, thus causing microbes to develop appropriate adaptations.

Other Notes

Liposomes (and in particular stealth liposomes) are important in the research of drugs as they allow injection molecules into the plasma membrane.
Many drugs act by inhibiting the transport of transmitters out of the synaptic cleft.