Pharmacology

Social pressure to minimize the use of animal testing, the ever-increasing concern on animal welfare, and the need for more human-relevant and more predictive toxicity tests are some of the drivers for new approaches to chemical screening.

This book provides a comprehensive review of new agents, a detailed description of new uses of current agents, and an integration of the available agents in clinical practice.

"e;Venomous"e; Bites from "e;Non-Venomous"e; Snakes, Second Edition thoroughly examines the potential hazards associated with bites by non-front-fanged snakes (popularly, but inaccurately, called "e;rear-fanged snakes"e;).

Polymers for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications: Fundamentals, Selection, and Preparation supports the successful selection, design, and development of polymers with the required properties and performance for a range of advanced pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.

This book presents the frontier research of toxicology and health risk assessment of chemicals.

This book discusses the role of oxidative stress in human reproduction with a focus on men's health.

The book provides essential information on some of the promising edible medicinal plants and how these possess both nutritional as well as therapeutic value.

Advances in Pharmacology & Therapeutics II, Volume 4: Biochemical Immunological Pharmacology covers papers on the developments in pharmacology and therapeutics.

Topics in Toxicology Toxicology is a science that stands at the intersection of several interests and disciplines.

Systems of Nanovesicular Drug Delivery provides a thorough insight into the complete and up-to-date discussions about the preparation, properties and drug delivery applications of various nanovesicles.

Endogenous and Exogenous Opiate Agonists and Antagonists documents the proceedings of the International Narcotic Research Club Conference, held in North Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA, on 11-15 June 1979.

With extensive detailed spectral data, it contains a variety of problems designed by renowned authors to develop proficiency in organic structure determination.

This book includes an international group of researchers who present the latest achievements in the field of enzyme, immune system, and microbial and nano-biosensors.

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have been established as promising biomolecular targets for novel drug design and discovery against numerous major disease conditions including various cancers, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, inflammatory diseases, and more.

This dictionary of toxicology provides curated and authentic information on the terminologies used with their description as per modern toxicology and associated declines.

This book examines 25 well-known and well-studied options for combating anxiety.

Osteoporosis, a growing epidemic among women in North America, Europe, and Japan, is a painful, costly disease that has presented a treatment challenge to healthcare professionals.

The current state of medicine has witnessed the long-term adverse effects of certain medications, an increased rate of polypharmacy, and a cultural shift that emphasizes patient-centered practice.

Originally published in 1960, the two volumes of Experiments in Personality report a number of experiments in psychogenetics, psychopharmacology, psychodiagnostics, psychometrics and psychodynamics, all of which formed part of the programme of research which had been developing from the late 1940s at the Maudsley Hospital.

This fully revised edition explores the management of neurological disorders with a focus on neuroprotection, disease modification, and neuroregeneration rather than symptomatic treatment.

This book describes the growing clinical and healthcare relevance of nano-therapeutics in treating respiratory diseases.

This book is a result of the First Conference on Lipoxygenases, held at Malta, May 17th-2l st, 1997.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

Although the official compendia define a drug substance as to identity, purity, strength, and quality, they normally do not provide other physical or chemical data, nor do they list methods of synthesis or pathways of physical or biological degradation and metabolism.

In this newly updated second edition of Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, William B.

Now the adverse drug reaction events reported in the newsletter Clin-Alert during Y2000 have been compiled, organized, re-formatted, indexed, and published in a convenient one-volume reference book, Clin-Alert 2001.

Tough Test Questions?

This Brief describes the chemical features of canned food products and gives background information on the technology of canning foods.

he purpose of this book is to give the reader T an impression of medical science in seven- teenth-century France.

This book reviews recent advances in the molecular and infection biology, pathology, and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as the identification and validation of novel molecular drug targets for the treatment of this mycobacterial disease.

The book gives an insight into the thorough study and examination of incumbent biosystems, their present status and disruption in their integrity, causes and effects, measures to be taken for their characterization and restoration apart from advances and applications in the field of biosciences, drug design, discovery, bio-systems, biomedical and drug delivery technologies, tools in particular.

Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

Antimicrobial resistance will become a global health threat since antimicrobial treatments continue at the forefront of the defense against microbial infections.

Bacterial Enzymes as Targets for Drug Discovery: Meeting the Challenges of Antibiotic Resistance addresses the gap between medical microbiology, structural biology, and genomic science in the development of new antibacterial drug development.

Ultraviolet radiation, a component of sunlight, has been recognized by photobiologists, dermatologists, and oculists as a potential hazard for human health because of its genotoxic, carcinogenic and immunotoxic properties.

Novel drug delivery technologies strive to bypass challenging biological layers to elicit desired pharmacological activity.

In the relatively few decades since the introduction of HIV into the human population, variants of the virus have diverged to such an extent that, were the discussion about something other than viruses, said variants could easily be classified as different species.

This book delves into the various aspects of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and its role in cardiovascular disorders.

This comprehensive, unified text on the principles and practice of clinical trials presents a detailed account of how to conduct the trials.

Prescription, illicit, and recreational drugs touch all of our lives yet a basic understanding of these chemicals is largely absent among Americans.

The Mechanics of Inhaled Pharmaceutical Aerosols, An Introduction provides a unique and comprehensive treatment of the mechanics of inhaled pharmaceutical aerosols.

The current state of medicine has witnessed the long-term adverse effects of certain medications, an increased rate of polypharmacy, and a cultural shift that emphasizes patient-centered practice.

This book provides an overview of the drug discovery process from natural sources such as plants and microbes.

Advances in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Volume 10: Chemotherapy covers the proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Pharmacology.

This essential volume explores a variety of tools and protocols of structure-based (homology modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, protein-protein interaction network) and ligand-based (pharmacophore mapping, quantitative structure-activity relationships or QSARs) drug design for ranking and prioritization of candidate molecules in search of effective treatment strategy against coronaviruses.