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A pharmacology primer : theory, applications, and methods /

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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kenakin, Terrence P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, �2006.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.