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This reference handbook is the first to provide a comprehensive overview, systematically characterizing all known transporters involved in drug elimination and resistance. Combining recent knowledge on all known classes of drug carriers, from microbes to man, it begins with a look at human and mamma...

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Other Authors: Ecker, Gerhard, Chiba, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Weinheim : Chichester : Wiley-VCH ; John Wiley [distributor], 2009.
Series:Methods and principles in medicinal chemistry ; v. 44.
Subjects:
Drug carriers (Pharmacy)
Drugs > Physiological transport.
Drug resistance.
Drug Carriers
Drug Resistance
Biological Transport > drug effects
Biological Transport > physiology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Transporters as Drug Carriers: Structure, Function, Substrates; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; A Personal Foreword; Part One: Human Transporter Families
  • Structure, Function, Physiology; 1 The ABC Transporters: Structural Insights into Drug Transport; 2 Biochemistry, Physiology, and Pharmacology of Nucleoside and Nucleobase Transporters; 3 Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptides (Oatps/OATPs); 4 CNS
  • Transporters as Drug Targets; Part Two: Drug Transport in Microorganisms and Fungi; 5 Bacterial Multidrug Transporters: Molecular and Clinical Aspects.