In the monograph, recognition of the receptors by drugs is described as a complex phenomenon that has not been yet entirely understood. The descrip...

This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of pharmacology, as well as research summaries from a number of differen...

Phytochemicals are health-protecting compounds of plant origin. They provide flavour and colour to edible fruits, plants, herbs and beverages. Heal...

Phytotherapy Approaches for Treatment of Mouth Ulcers is a book with updated and illustrated text with pictures and graphs that help to define, cha...

To date, a number of clinically important drugs have been identified that interact with commonly-used herbs and thus herb-drug interactions have be...

In the midst of national concern over illicit drug use and abuse, prescription drug abuse has been identified as the United States' fastest growing...

By the nature of its use, the intrathecal baclofen pump is frequently implanted in children and adults with either an advanced spinal, pelvic or hi...

The Prescription Drug User Fee Act authorized the Food and Drug Administration to collect user fees from industry to support the approval of new dr...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awards priority review vouchers (PRV) to drug sponsors that develop drugs for tropical diseases or rare pedi...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of prescription drug overdose deat...

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

One of the main causes of failure in the treatment of cancer is the development of drug resistance by the cancer cells. The design of cancer chemot...

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

Propofol is an injectable agent that is commonly used for general anaesthesia. In addition to its central nervous system depressant action, propofo...

Why would anyone want to write about propranolol, the first clinically utilized beta blocker? It is, after all, an outdated medicine. However, that...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have become a mainstay of therapy not only in the practice of gastroenterology, but also for general medicine and eve...

Pharmacotherapy is the most commonly used treatment method for psychiatric disorders. Many patients experience medical diseases concurrent with psy...

Acute diarrhea, although tends to be a self-limiting disease in otherwise healthy people, continues to cause millions of deaths every year, particu...

Randomised clinical trials (RCT) have been accepted as the golden standard of testing, which in turn makes chemical medicine "evidence based". RCT ...

It has been over 100 years since Dr. Paul Ehrlich referred to an ideal therapeutic agent able to target and treat only a highly specific site in an...

This book highlights recent advances in beta blockers research. Beta blockers have been used for the treatment of several clinical conditions and i...

The definition of 'natural' is 'produced or existing in nature.' Natural products refer to as any natural constituents, natural substances, or a gr...

Ribavirin has been studied for over 20 years as a potential therapy against a number of RNA and DNA viruses. It is well known that Ribavirin in com...

Rituximab (MabThera®, Rituxan®) is a chimaeric murine/human antibody targeted against the surface antigen CD20 that is expressed on normal and mali...

This book focuses on the safety efforts being implemented in paediatric drug development. Although children suffer from many of the same diseases a...

The drug package that a community pharmacist hands to a patient, or a hospital pharmacist sends to a patient's bedside, or a physician administers ...

This book presents an overview of recent developments for an "old drug", simvastatin. It belongs to the class of statins, the most commonly prescri...

Statins work by reducing cholesterol synthesis by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. The decrease in cholesterol levels is associated with in...

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

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are used to treat patients with advanced thyroid cancers. Sunitinib (SU11248) is an oral small-molecule, oxindol derivat...

Tamoxifen was first approved in 1977 and up to now remains a noteworthy therapeutic weapon to treat mainly breast cancer. However, further consider...

Pediatrics is the form of medical care that is concerned with children from birth to adolescence, specializing in a variety of characteristics and ...

Haloperidol is the most common neuroleptic drugs associated with a range of side effects caused by interactions with other drugs. In The Pharmacolo...

Almost six decades after its discovery, metformin still remains the gold standard drug for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus, owing to its...

The Pharmacological Guide to Montelukast opens by presenting the most recent updates on the improvement of montelukast stability and bioavailabilit...

This is a comprehensive reference manual. Its authors include seasoned practicing mental health professionals and doctoral psychology program facul...

The Pharmacological Guide to Phenytoin is a multi-authored text geared towards clinicians and pharmacists who will be prescribing and handling phen...

Chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV) has been a global health burden since its discovery in 1989. This is the integrated reference book for all clin...

This book provides a current review of the field of Trastuzumab pharmacology from a variety of chemical, biochemical, physiological, pharmacokineti...

The cultural, scientific and legislative divide created by vigorous debates over the legalization of medical marijuana is giving way to a new syner...

Pharmacology can be defined as a discipline of paramedical sciences that teaches how the use of drugs can bring about changes from pathological sta...

This book offers readers an overview of the field of toxicology while incorporating historical context with present day advances. The chapters, wri...

Cox-2 Inhibitors are newly developed drugs for inflammation that selectively block the Cox-2 enzyme. Blocking this enzyme impedes the production of...

Valproic acid (VPA) is a short chain fatty acid which has been used medicinally to treat conditions as far reaching as epilepsy, Bipolar disorder, ...