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Medicines by Design

Pharmacology is a broad discipline encompassing every aspect of the study of drugs, including their discovery and development and the testing of their action in the body. This book aims to explain how scientists unravel the many different ways medicines work in the body and how this information guides the hunt for drugs of the future.

Author(s): US Department of Health and Human Services

NA Pages

The purpose of the textbook is to help the students of higher medical institutions of the 4th level of accreditation to study general concepts of Pharmacology and properties of drugs acting on different systems of the human body. This textbook has been prepared in order to improve the students� self-training for the lessons under the conditions of implementation of the educational system of Bolonga.

Author(s): The Ministry of Public Health Care of Ukraine

578 Pages

Basic Concepts in Pharmacology What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class

Basic Concepts in Pharmacology: What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class is not a conventional review book for pharmacology. It is a book to help you organize your attack on the hundreds of drugs covered in pharmacology classes today. Our survey for the first edition of this book made it clear that it is the number of drugs in a particular class that students find overwhelming. This fear causes many students to lose focus on the most important part of pharmacology�the concepts.

Author(s): Janet L Stringer

NA Pages

Antimicrobial drugs

This note covers the following topics: Penicillin, Antimicrobial effect, Antimicrobial drugs, Selective Toxicity, Chemotherapeutic index, The Ideal Drug, Side effects of chemotherapy, Antibiotic Mechanisms of Action, Beta-lactam antibiotics, Beta-lactamase inhibitors, Glycopeptides, Mechanism of vancomycin resistance, Antibiotics Inhibiting Protein Synthesis, Makrolides and lyncosamides, Chloramphenicol, Tetracycline, Antibiotics Acting As Antimetabolites, Quinolones.

Author(s): Dora Szabo

83 Pages

Principles and Practice of Drug Development

This note serves as a description and critical assessment of the major issues and stages of developing a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical. Topics covered include drug discovery, preclinical development, clinical investigation, manufacturing and regulatory issues considered for small and large molecules, and economic and financial considerations of the drug development process.

Author(s): Prof. Charles Cooney, Stan Finkelstein, MD, Dr. G. K. Raju and Prof. Anthony Sinskey

NA Pages

Recent Advances in Novel Drug Carrier Systems

This contribution book collects reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the interdisciplinary arena of novel drug delivery systems and their uses. Topics covered includes: Hot-Melt Extrusion, Development and Investigation of Dry Powder Inhalers for Cystic Fibrosis, The Role of Carrier in Dry Powder Inhaler, Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Lipid Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems, Niosomes as Carrier in Dermal Drug Delivery, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy, Amphiphilic Cyclodextrins, Synthesis, Utilities and Application of Molecular Modeling in Their Design, Nanoparticles Toxicity and Their Routes of Exposures.

Author(s): Ali Demir Sezer

512 Pages

Pharmacology; action and uses of drugs

The author does not claim for the book that it is an exhaustive treatise on Pharmacology suitable for advanced students of the subject, but that it may be found useful to the ordinary medical students and also to the general practitioners who may use it to review their medical school instruction. In this second edition the author has attempted to incorporate all new facts in pharmacology or in pharmaco-therapy which have been developed since the previous edition.

Author(s): Maurice Vejux Tyrode

305 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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