Handbook of drug screening /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seethala, Ramakrishna, 1947-, Fernandes, P. B. (Prabhavathi B.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Marcel Dekker, [2001]
Series:Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences ; v. 114.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Moving into the third millennium after a century of screening
  • Basic considerations in designing high-throughput screening assays
  • Screening platforms
  • Homogeneous assays for high-throughput and ultrahigh-throughput screening
  • Microbe-based screening systems
  • Molecular genetic screen design for agricultural and pharmaceutical product discovery
  • Receptor screens for small molecule agonist and antagonist discovery
  • Functional assay screens
  • Enzyme screens
  • Screening strategies for ion channel targets
  • High-throughput screening assays for detection of transcription
  • Screening of combinatorial biology libraries for natural products discovery
  • Higher-throughput screening assays with human hepatocytes for hepatotoxicity, metabolic stability, and drug-drug interaction potential
  • High-throughput screening for metabolism-based drug-drug interactions
  • The ATCG of drug discovery
  • Genomics/functional proteomics for identification of new targets
  • Bioinformatics : identification of novel targets and their characterization
  • The evolution of laboratory automation
  • Robotics and automation
  • Assay miniaturization : developing technologies and assay formats
  • Screening in the NanoWorld : single-molecule spectroscopy and miniaturized high-throughput screening.