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A pharmacology primer : theory, applications, and methods /

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The Second Edition will continue this tradition of better preparing researchers in the basics of pharmacology. In addition, new human interest material including historical facts in pharmacology will be added. A new section on therapeutics will help readers identify with diseases and drug treatments...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kenakin, Terrence P.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, [2006]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Receptors, Drug > physiology.
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug.
Pharmacology > methods.
Pharmacology.
Drugs.
Chemicals > Physiological effect.
Pharmacologie.
Médicaments.
Produits chimiques > Effets physiologiques.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What is Pharmacology?
  • How Different Tissues Process Drug Response
  • Drug Receptor Theory
  • Pharmacological Assay Formats: Binding
  • Agonists: The Measurement of Affinity and Efficacy in Functional Assays
  • Orthosteric Drug Antagonism
  • Allosteric Drug Antagonism
  • The Process of Drug Discovery
  • Target- and System-based Strategies for Drug Discovery
  • Hit to Drug: Lead Optimization
  • Statistics and Experimental Design
  • Selected Pharmacological Methods
  • Glossary of Pharmacological Terms
  • Appendices:
  • Statistical Tables
  • Mathematical Fitting Functions.