Traces the history of the use of hallucinogenic drugs and discusses the psychological and physical effects of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, and other drugs.
Guide to cultivating peyote and other psychoactive cacti and extracting active properties, including obtaining seeds, growing a variety of cacti, cloning, and grafting, and extracting the maximum output of mescaline and other alkaloids, descriptions of procedures used for extracting mescaline from peyote and San Pedro, and legal aspects prepared by Attorney Richard Glen Boire.
A chemocentric view of the molecular structures of antibiotics, their origins, actions, and major categories of resistance Antibiotics: Challenges, Mechanisms, Opportunities focuses on antibiotics as small organic molecules, from both natural and synthetic sources.
Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies that show how we can live longer, healthier lives by breathing clean air, eating healthy food, drinking safe water, and using non-toxic products.
This book tackles the crucial topic of deviation and failure investigations in the pharmaceutical industry, recognizing their pivotal influence on regulatory outcomes.
P-glycoprotein (P-gp), encoded by the multidrug-resistance (MDR)-1 gene is one of the best studied efflux transporters that is linked to multidrug resistance in cancer chemotherapies.
Over the past several years research concerning brain health and nutraceuticals has received much attention due to their potential neuroprotective properties and few or no side effects.
A Comprehensive Guide to Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) begins by describing the general characteristics, classification, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical uses and adverse effects of NSAIDs.
This book presents advances in the field of novel drug delivery, focusing on novel molecules with potential to transform the treatment and preclusion of wound healing.
Thymoquinone has a wide a range of beneficial pharmacological properties, including antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, neuro-, cardio-, nephro- and hepatoprotective activity, with tremendous immune-modulating properties.
Lipid Nanoparticles: Advances in Research and Applications provides a review of the main types of lipid-based drug nanoparticles such as nanoemulsions, self-emulsifying drug release systems, liposomes, lipid nanocapsules, solid lipid nanoparticles, and nanostructured lipid carriers.
It has become apparent that pharmacy education needs to respond to professional and social changes and renew its mission in terms of students and learning objectives.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awards priority review vouchers (PRV) to drug sponsors that develop drugs for tropical diseases or rare pediatric diseases or to use as medical countermeasures.
This book provides a current review of the field of Trastuzumab pharmacology from a variety of chemical, biochemical, physiological, pharmacokinetical, pharmacodynamical, biophysical and medical perspectives.
The Prescription Drug User Fee Act authorized the Food and Drug Administration to collect user fees from industry to support the approval of new drugs and biologics.
Acute diarrhea, although tends to be a self-limiting disease in otherwise healthy people, continues to cause millions of deaths every year, particularly in infants and the elderly.
Even though clozapine is the only drug with evidence-based efficacy in schizophrenia symptoms not responding to other agents, it is still under-prescribed in most countries around the world.
The Pharmacological Guide to Phenytoin is a multi-authored text geared towards clinicians and pharmacists who will be prescribing and handling phenytoin or fosphenytoin.
Ketamine: History, Uses and Health Effects first compares the pathology of the urinary system in ketamin- treated mice with those treated by Uncaria rhynchophylla plus e and Gouteng-treated mice.
Almost six decades after its discovery, metformin still remains the gold standard drug for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, owing to its euglycemic property and cost-effectiveness.
The Pharmacological Guide to Montelukast opens by presenting the most recent updates on the improvement of montelukast stability and bioavailability, along with some innovative formulations produced by this research.
Although the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent diclofenac is an old drug, there is ongoing research interest on potential novel indications of the drug, on adverse drug reactions of diclofenac and on the management of these adverse drug reactions.
Pharmacology is the study of substances that interact with living systems through chemical processes, especially by binding to regulatory molecules and activating or inhibiting normal body processes.
Advances in Medicinal Chemistry Research is a book addressed to undergraduate and postgraduate students, where recent advances in the discovery and development of effective agents against the most remarkable wide-reaching diseases are presented, divided into seven chapters.
Glutathione (GSH) is a ubiquitous tripeptide (y-L-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl-glycin) playing an important role in cellular redox homeostasis, defense against electrophilic reactive species, and control of several cellular events, among others.
Doxycycline: Medical Uses and Effects opens with a personal account of experiments suggesting that doxycycline may play an important role in the fight against cancer and T-cell proliferation-related diseases.
This book presents an overview of the traditional usage of these medicinal mushrooms and the scientific evidence for their role in alleviating lung diseases.
The cultural, scientific and legislative divide created by vigorous debates over the legalization of medical marihuana has given way to a new synergy among community stakeholders across the United States to improve access to medical marijuana for patients with refractory debilitating neurological disorders, cancer, and chronic pain as an alternative to ineffective pharmacotherapy and potentially addictive pain medications.
This book is one of the most important books in this area because it is devoted to special characteristics of an important antibiotic (Ciprofluoxacin).
Frontiers in Leukemia Pharmacotherapy provides a comprehensive overview of the various leukemic disorders found in both children and adults, with an emphasis on current and novel treatment approaches for the healthcare practitioner.
The class of serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (or SNRIs) were introduced into clinical use as a result of the perceived short-comings of other antidepressant medications.
The aim of this publication is to provide up-to-date information about the recent developments in biochemical methodologies and strategies for Nigella sativa phytochemicals isolation and identification, as well as to highlight the most relevant data about its pharmacological importance in relation with its health promoting benefits actions.
