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A Pharmacology Primer Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

A Pharmacology Primer By Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

A Pharmacology Primer by Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

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Dealing with the basics of pharmacology, this work features historical facts in pharmacology. It contains a section on therapeutics to help readers identify with diseases and drug treatments. It also features over 30 figures and tables and a coverage of pharmacokinetics and drug disposition.

A Pharmacology Primer Summary

A Pharmacology Primer: Theory, Applications, and Methods by Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

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.

About Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

Terry P. Kenakin is the recipient of the 2008 Poulsson Medal for Pharmacology awarded by the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology for achievements in basic and clinical pharmacology and toxicology. He has also been awarded the 2011 Ariens Award from the Dutch Pharmacological Society and the 2014 Gaddum Memorial Award from the British Pharmacological Society. Having been involved in drug discovery for over 30 years, his interests include the optimal design of drug activity assays systems and quantitative drug receptor theory. He is a member of numerous editorial boards as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction and Current Opinion in Pharmacology. In addition, Dr. Kenakin has authored numerous articles and has also written a number of books on pharmacology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Is Pharmacology? Chapter 2: How Different Tissues Process Drug Response Chapter 3: Drug-Receptor Theory Chapter 4: Pharmacological Assay Formats: Binding Chapter 5: Agonists: The Measurement of Affinity and Efficacy in Functional Assays Chapter 6: Orthosteric Drug Antagonism Chapter 7: Allosteric Drug Antagonism Chapter 8: The Process of Drug Discovery Chapter 9: Target- and System-based Strategies for Drug Discovery Chapter 10: "Hit" to Drug: Lead Optimization Chapter 11: Statistics and Experimental Design Chapter 12: Selected Pharmacological Methods Glossary of Pharmacological Terms Appendices Index

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GOR008754644
9780123705990
0123705991
A Pharmacology Primer: Theory, Applications, and Methods by Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
Terry Kenakin (Professor of Pharmacology, The University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
2006-10-27
320
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