Pharmacology

This book is a unique overview of insights on the genetic basis of anti-diabetic activity, chemistry, physiology, biotechnology, mode-of-action, as well as cellular mechanisms of anti-diabetic secondary metabolites from medicinal plants.

The ability to regulate and manipulate the generation or remodeling of blood vessels is key to the successful treatment of many chronic diseases, both oncological and non-oncological.

The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn.

Normal and Malignant Cell Growth is a compendium of papers from the "e;Proceedings of the Third Cancer Training Grant"e; of the University of Chicago that deals with the processes associated with malignant neoplasia, as well as the cell proliferation kinetics of normal tissues.

Few chemical compounds created by man have caused greater controversy than organophosphates.

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs is a key reference guide for all those involved with the design, development, and use of the best-selling drugs.

This book describes a broad area of nanomedicine which involves mainly applications, diseases, and diagnostics.

Infectious Diseases: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology presents authoritative, peer-reviewed contributions from leading experts on a wide range of major infectious diseases of global importance.

This fully updated volume describes methods and protocols for a number of drugs and toxins in a stepwise manner.

Comprising a single repository of knowledge and scientific evidence in the field, this book provides strategies to mitigate fall risk by providing information on the complex interactions between aging processes, co-morbid conditions and prescribed medications in older patients.

Techniques using evoked spinal cord potentials (SCPs) have become important clinical tools for monitoring spinal cord surgery and diagnosing spinal cord diseases.

The Endocannabinoidome: The World of Endocannabinoids and Related Mediators is dedicated to the latest research and studies on endocannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors to illustrate their important role in the discovery of new, endocannabinoid-related, lipid mediators.

International researchers summarize the current understanding of peptic disease and trace the development of a novel new drug for peptic disease therapy-sucralfate.

Virtual Screening and Drug Docking, Volume 59 in the Annual Reports on Medicinal Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Can docking scoring functions guarantee success in virtual screening?

Bacterial Vaccines provides information dealing with vaccination of man against bacterial diseases.

Strategies to reduce medical uncertainty and build evidence have become critical to the advancement of medical knowledge and modern medical practice.

Cyclosporin has had a remarkable effect on clinical organ transplantation.

This handbook of the series Biomarkers in Disease informs comprehensively about all aspects of monitoring and detecting toxicity in the human body and model organisms.

Since the first TRP ion channel was discovered in Drosophila melanogaster in 1989, the progress made in this area of signaling research has yielded findings that offer the potential to dramatically impact human health and wellness.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Toxicology**Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology, Third Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative resource, providing the latest literature on this complex subject by focusing on three core components - parent, placenta and fetus - and the continuous changes that occur in each.

This book covers the morphological characteristics, ethnopharmacological properties, isolated and identified structurally diverse secondary metabolites, biological and pharmacological activities of medicinal plants.

With the improvements in formulation science and certain transdermal delivery technologies, the non-invasive mode of drug delivery is now ready to compete with traditional methods of oral and injectible routes of drug delivery.

Since ancient times, plants serve as a valuable source of traditional herbal medicines.

This updated and revised textbook presents a broad overview on topics concerning cellular electrophysiology - ranging from bioelectric phenomena recognized as far back as ancient Egypt to popular topics on the dangers of electrosmog.

Six decades after the serendipitous discovery of chlorpromazine as an antipsychotic and four decades after the launch of clozapine, the first atypical or second generation antipsychotic, psychopharmacology has arrived at an important crossroad.

Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain.

Eine der Behandlungsmöglichkeiten beim Vorliegen einer Depression ist die Gabe von selektiven Serotonin- aufnahmehemmern.

The aims of this volume are to highlight the tremendous pharmacological potential of protein kinase and protein phosphatase inhibitors, to provide a thorough overview of the most remarkable achievements in the field and to illustrate how beneficial these studies can be for the advancement of both basic knowledge on biological regulation and deregulation and for the clinical treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases.

First, systems biology is an inter-disciplinary approach, requiring the combined talents of biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.

Ischemic brain damage represents a major source of morbidity and mortality in westernized society and poses a significant financial burden on the health care system.

Drug therapy management is a key topic for all nurses caring for patients with a rheumatologic condition.

This book provides an all-embracing review of each and every author's study on the related topics and areas.

Recent Advances in Clinical Therapeutics, Volume 1: Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease, Analgesics, and Endocrine Disorders presents the clinical development in therapeutics.

This is a book for the general reader about the world of fungi.

Neuro-psychopharmacology covers the proceedings of the 11th Congress of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum, held in Vienna on July 9-14, 1978.

Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Approaches, Tools and Advances offers an overview of the different methods available in toxicology for pesticide exposure and risk assessment, ranging from the regulatory field, to in-field research studies.

Tbis volume discusses and evaluates the use of neurotoxins to produce animal models of human neurodegenerative diseases.

The rapid expansion of the TRP field has generated a large amount of excellent original work across many different research fields.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of the unit operations involved in the manufacturing process of solid and liquid dosage forms, along with the scale-up of each operation.

We organized the Seventh International Winter Conference on Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation in a small town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture in Japan on January 20 to 22, 1999.

This volume is based on the program of the International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and Immunodeficiency held in Clearwater Beach, Florida.

Spectroscopic Data of Steroid Glycosides serves as an essential reference guide containing spectroscopic, physical and biological activity data of over 3500 steroid glycosides, offering the structures and the data of the naturally occurring glycosides of steroids.

Research Needs in Subsurface Science provides an overview of the subsurface contamination problems across the DOE complex and shows by examples from the six largest DOE sites (Hanford Site, Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Nevada Test Site, Oak Ridge Reservation, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, and Savannah River Site) how advances in scientific and engineering knowledge can improve the effectiveness of the cleanup effort.

A repertoire of 10 TLRs mediate the first response to all microbes that infect mammals.

Toxic fire effluents are responsible for the majority of fire deaths, and an increasing large majority of fire injuries, driven by the widespread and increasing use of synthetic polymers.