Pharmacology category: 1712 books
What You Must Know about Statin Drugs & Their Natural Alternatives
A Consumer's Guide to Safely Using Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor, Crestor, Pravachol, or Natural Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Over 100 million Americans suffer from elevated cholesterol and C-reactive proteins—markers linked to heart attack and other cardiovascular disorders. To combat these problems, modern science has created statins. While over 20 million people take these medications, up to 42 percent experience side...
Therapeutic Protein Drug Products
Practical Approaches to formulation in the Laboratory, Manufacturing, and the Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Therapeutic protein drug products provides a comprehensive overview of therapeutic protein drug products, with an emphasis on formulation beginning in the laboratory, followed by manufacturing and administration in the clinic. A list of many commercial therapeutic drug products are described and include...
by Thomas A Gossel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In this third edition, the editors have accounted for the numerous changes in protocols for managing poison ingestions and have again provided an indispensable resource for all students of pharmacy and the health sciences on the basic principles of clinical toxicology. The book's unique focus on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This authoritative volume explores advances in the techniques used to measure percutaneous penetration of drugs and chemicals to assess bioavailability and bioequivalence and discusses how they have been used in clinical and scientific investigations. Seven comprehensive sections examine topics...
Embedding New Technologies into Society
A Regulatory, Ethical and Societal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The embedding of any new technologies in society is challenging. The evolving state of the scientific art, often-unquantifiable risks and ill-defined developmental trajectories have the potential to hinder innovation and/or the commercial success of a technology. The are, however, a number of tools...
by G. Lawton, David R. Witty
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry provides a review of eclectic developments in medicinal chemistry. This volume continues in the serial's tradition of providing an insight into the skills required of the modern medicinal chemist; in particular, the use of an appropriate selection of the wide range...
Dendrimer-Based Drug Delivery Systems
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The opportunities and challenges of using dendrimers to improve drug delivery
Among pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers, the use of dendrimers in drug delivery systems has attracted increasing interest. In particular, researchers have noted that the volume of a dendrimer increases when...
Pharmaceutical Toxicology in Practice
A Guide to Non-clinical Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This book describes, with references to key source materials, the background to, and conduct of, the principal nonclinical studies that are central to drug development. The chapters provide an understanding of the key components of the preclinical phase of drug development with a hands-on description,...
The Lock and Key of Medicine
Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies. Often referred to as Mabs, they are unfamiliar to most nonscientists, yet these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. Discovered in the mid-1970s in the...
by Rakesh Ranjan, Amita Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This book describes in detail various aspects of fluoride toxicity in animals. Animals, like human beings, suffer from the toxic effects of excess fluoride intake. They show pathological changes in their teeth and bone, together with a marked reduction in appetite, productive and reproductive potentials,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children reviews the latest findings for the safety and efficacy of the rapidly rising incidence of antipsychotic use in children and examines tensions that are created by off-label use, both in clinical psychiatric practice and research. In the past...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Ocular toxicity is routinely assessed in toxicology studies conducted for regulatory purposes. Ocular anatomy and physiology and the assessment of ocular toxicity itself can be challenging to scientists involved in the safety assessment of pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other agents. Anatomical...
Ligand Efficiency Indices for Drug Discovery
Towards an Atlas-Guided Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The purpose of Ligand Efficiency Indices for Drug Discovery: Towards an Atlas-Guided Paradigm is to introduce in a concise and self-contained form the concepts, ideas, applications and examples of efficiency-driven drug discovery to the biomedical community at large. The book emphasizes the use of...