http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xvii, 952 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
General principles -- Introduction and definitions -- Sites of action: receptors -- Concentration-response relationships -- Clinical pharmacokinetics and dosing schedules -- Absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination -- Drug delivery strategies and gene therapy -- Issues in therapeutics -- Peripheral autonomic nervous system: drugs affecting transmission and function -- Physiology and biochemistry of the peripheral autonomic nervous system -- Drugs affecting the parasympathetic nervous system and autonomic ganglia.
Drugs affecting the sympathetic nervous system -- Neuromuscular blocking agents -- Cardiovascular system: drugs affecting cardiac function, blood pressure, renal function and coagulation -- Regulation of blood pressure by the autonomic nervous system -- Antihypertensive drugs -- Cardiac electrophysiology and antiarrhythmic agents -- Drugs affecting the force of cardiac contraction -- Calcium antagonists -- Vasodilators -- Prostaglandins and related autacoids -- Diuretics: drugs that increase excretion of water and electrolytes.
Lipid lowering drugs and atherosclerosis -- Drugs affecting coagulation, fibrinolysis and platelet aggregation -- Drugs affecting behavior, psychotic state, pain sensation, muscle control and sleep -- Pharmacological organization of the CNS -- Antipsychotic agents -- Drugs for affective (mood) disorders -- Drugs to treat anxieties and related disorders -- Drugs for seizure disorders (epilepsies) -- Drugs for the treatment of movement disorders -- Pain control with opioid analgesics -- Pain and inflammation control with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs.
Pain control with general and local anesthetics -- Alcohol -- Drug and substance abuse -- Drugs for sleep disorders -- Endocrine systems: hormones and related compounds -- Hormone receptors and signaling mechanisms -- Glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids -- Estrogens, progestins and oral contraceptives -- Androgens and antiandrogens -- Thyroid and antithyroid drugs -- Insulin and oral hypoglycemic agents -- Drugs affecting uterine motility -- Hypothalamic-pituitary hormones -- Calcium-regulating hormones and other agents affecting bone.
Neoplastic cells: drugs affecting cell growth and viability -- Individual antineoplastic drugs -- Clinical effects with antineoplastic drugs -- Immunopharmacology -- Invading organisms: agents that kill invaders -- Principles of antimicrobial use -- Bacterial cell wall inhibitors -- Inhibitors of bacterial ribosomal actions -- Bacterial folate antagonists -- Other antibacterial agents -- Selection of an antibacterial agent -- Antimycobacterial agents -- Antifungal agents -- Antiviral agents -- Drugs effective against parasitic helminthic infections.
Drugs effective against parasitic protozoal infections -- Antiseptics and disinfectants -- Other systems and special topics -- Drugs used in asthma and obstructive lung disease -- Histamine and antihistamines -- Gastrointestinal drugs -- Nutritional aspects of pharmacology -- Toxicology -- Perinatal/neonatal pharmacology -- Gerontological pharmacology -- Drugs to treat anemia -- Regulated drug development and usage.
Includes bibliographical references and index.