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

Veterinary pharmacology and toxicology are being increasingly recognized as important disciplines and were also rapidly changing and evolving in th...

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...

It is important to understand that forensic histopathology is quite different compared to the rest of histology. Diagnostic histopathology is large...

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 ...

Rapamycin is a macrocyclic natural product involved in various biological and pharmacological processes including antifungal, immunosuppressive, an...

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...