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Drug Misuse Opioid Detoxification

The guideline on Drug misuse sets out clear, evidence-based recommendations for healthcare staff on how to work with people who misuse opioids to significantly improve their treatment and care, and to deliver detoxification safely and effectively.

Author(s): National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK)

NA Pages

This book is a fruit of a collaborative work from several international scientists. It will be a useful resource for researchers, students, and clinicians. Each individual chapter could serve as a prescribed reading for postgraduate students and clinicians specializing in and practicing clinical pharmacology and toxicology, pharmacotherapy and pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacovigilance, and toxicovigilance, as well as those involved in clinical research, drug discovery, and development.

Author(s): Ntambwe Malangu

NA Pages

Anticoagulant Drugs

This book gives an overview of all the known anticoagulants that can be useful for studying different aspects of the haemostatic system or as a starting point for new drug development. It is also a valuable tool for clinicians providing a description of the mode of action and management of therapy for anticoagulant drugs used in daily clinical practice in different clinical settings, including direct oral anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban and apixaban .

Author(s): Mojca Boxic-Mijovski

NA Pages

Topics on Drug Metabolism

This book presents some in-depth reviews of selected topics in drug metabolism. Topics covered includes: Oral Absorption, Intestinal Metabolism and Human Oral Bioavailability, Pharmacogenetics and Metabolism, Altered Drug Metabolism and Transport in Pathophysiological Conditions, Anticancer Drug Metabolism: Chemotherapy Resistance and New Therapeutic Approaches, Transcription Factors Potentially Involved in Regulation of Cytochrome P450 Gene Expression, Electrochemical Methods for the In Vitro Assessment of Drug Metabolism, Pharmacogenomic Technology for Personalized Medicine.

Author(s): James Paxton

NA Pages

Drug Discovery and Development From Molecules to Medicine

In the fields of medicine, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. This book demonstrates that various expertise are essential for drug discovery including synthetic or natural drugs, clinical pharmacology, receptor identification, drug metabolism, pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic research. The following 5 sections cover diverse chapter topics in drug discovery: Natural Products as Sources of Leading Molecules in Drug Discovery; Oncology and Drug Discovery; Receptors Involvement in Drug Discovery; Management and Development of Drugs against Infectious Diseases; Advanced Methodology.

Author(s): Omboon Vallisuta and Suleiman Olimat

328 Pages

Pharmacology Lecture Notes

This lecture note on pharmacology is primarily a note for undergraduate health science students such as health officer, nursing, midwifery and laboratory technology students. The chapters open with a list of objectives to guide the reader, and most end with questions which challenge the reader�s understanding of the concepts covered with in the chapter. Most sections have an introduction that provides an overview of the material to be covered.

Author(s): Teferra Abula, Srinivasa A.Rao, Amare Mengistu, Solomomon Worku, Eshetu Legesse, Musie Aberra, Dawit, University of Gondar

211 Pages

Drug Discovery

Natural products are a constant source of potentially active compounds for the treatment of various disorders.Plant derived secondary metabolites have been used by humans to treat acute infections, health disorders and chronic illness for tens of thousands of years. Only during the last 100 years have natural products been largely replaced by synthetic drugs.Books on drug discovery will play vital role in the new era of disease treatment using natural products.

Author(s): Hany A. El-Shemy

515 Pages

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Drug Misuse Opioid Detoxification

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