Gemcitabine was synthesised in the 1980s at Lilly Research Laboratories (Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN). It was initially developed as an ant...

Learning and understanding how medicine acts, what the body does to the drug, with both the beneficial and potentially deleterious effects it has, ...

Natural toxicants have been known from ancient times and man used them to gain various benefits by producing remedies, preserving goods or using th...

The practice of "authorised generics" has recently been the subject of considerable attention by the pharmaceutical industry, regulators, and membe...

Glutathione (GSH) is a ubiquitous tripeptide (y-L-gluatamyl-Lcysteinyl-glycin) playing an important role in cellular redox homeostasis, defence aga...

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) have been developing as an academic discipline over the last 30 years or so, but its impact on health ...

This book examines the medical human research industry from the point of view of the researched. Written by human test research subjects (also know...

This book presents 848 compounds isolated and identified from plants that present anti-inflammatory and antiplatelet aggregation activities. These ...

Drug monitoring in clinical chemistry refers to the measurement of drug concentration in blood serum/plasma so that an optimal concentration is obt...

This book presents advances in the field of novel drug delivery, focusing on novel molecules with potential to transform the treatment and preclusi...

Heparin has been widely used in the medical community as an anti-coagulant. More recently, heparin has been shown to possess other biologically and...

Heparin is a highly sulphated glycosaminoglycan discovered about 90 years ago, and since then is widely used in medicine as an anticoagulant drug, ...

This book selectively discusses recent advances in human experimental models relating to the treatment of opioid dependence. The author critically ...

Human serum albumin is found in the intravascular and extracellular space and is the main protein of human blood plasma. Human serum albumin binds ...

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the clinical pharmacology, medical uses, and adverse effects of ibuprofen. Topic...

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

The Internet offers consumers a convenient method for purchasing drugs that is sometimes cheaper than buying from traditional brick-and-mortar phar...

Ketamine: History, Uses and Health Effects first compares the pathology of the urinary system in ketamin- treated mice with those treated by Uncari...

Lidocaine is a short-acting local anaesthetic agent first developed in 1943. It was one of a number of synthetic local anaesthetic agents developed...

Lipid Nanoparticles: Advances in Research and Applications provides a review of the main types of lipid-based drug nanoparticles such as nanoemulsi...

Cannabis sativa is the scientific name for the widely used drug commonly known as marijuana. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in th...

Medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacology involved with designing, synthes...

Today, the world witnesses a global resurgence of interests in plant-based drugs and cosmetics. The revival of traditional health care systems, whi...

Methotrexate (MTX) is an important component of therapy in several immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and cancers such as acute lymp...