Pharmacology

Although benzodiazepines are among the most commonly prescribed medications, owing to their roles in multiple areas of therapeutic action as anxiol...

Statins are well-known drugs to lower cholesterol levels and play an important role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. They inhibit hydr...

The prodrug approach is a promising and well established strategy for the development of new entities that possess superior efficacy, selectivity a...

Examples of plant-derived pharmaceuticals that have become the focus of continuous and exponential research and development interest have, to date,...

The past quarter-century has seen tremendous progress in biomedical research, leading to increasing understanding of cancer, heart disease, diabete...

Imatinib has brought a revolution in the management of Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a disease which had very limited therapeutic options inc...

The mycotoxin ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary metabolite of certain fungi that may be present in food and feed. Consumption of contaminated food ...

For an American in the 21st century, it is hard to imagine the world before antibiotics. At the beginning of the 20th century, as many as nine wome...

This text contains seven chapters, five of which are original articles. One of them deals with the invention and development of cyclophosphamide, m...

Covering the essential basic science and principles of pharmacology using concise text and diagrams, Dale's Pharmacology Condensed, 3rd Edition, pr...

An essential reference text, the fifth edition of this popular book details drugs in anaesthesia and intensive care in an A-Z format. The book desc...

Medicinal plants and the natural products within them, still remain the starting point for breakthroughs in the development of safe, pharmacologica...

Gain a complete understanding of drugs affecting patient care! Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry, 7th Edition describes how to evaluate a...

Using real patient cases accompanied by questions that address all NAPLEX(R) competency statements, the new fully updated PharmPrep: ASHP's NAPLEX(...

One of the most widespread words in medicine is placebo and placebo effect, although it is not always clear what it means exactly. Recent progress ...

Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unre...

Morphine, writes Richard J. Miller, is the most significant chemical substance mankind has ever encountered. So ancient that remains of poppies hav...

An internationally renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Wenk has been educating college and medical students about the brain and lecturing around the world...

Updated with new chapters and topics, this book provides a comprehensive description of all essential topics in contemporary pharmacokinetics and p...

Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system. Life's Rewards: Linking D...

This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each pat...