Gary Walsh

Biopharmaceuticals 2e

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The latest edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biopharmaceutical products. Biopharmaceuticals refers to pharmaceutical substances derived from biological sources, and increasingly, it is synonymous with 'newer' pharmaceutical substances derived from genetic engineering or hybridoma technology.

This superbly written review of the important areas of investigation in the field, covers drug production, plus the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action together with the biotechnology of major biopharmaceutical types on the market or currently under development. There is also additional material reflecting both the technical advances in the area and detailed information on key topics such as the influence of genomics on drug discovery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• ISBN-13: 9780470843277
• ISBN-10: 0470843276
• Artikelnr.: 12330204

Autorenporträt

Gary Walsh is a senior lecturer in industrial biochemistry at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He combines industrial experience within the pharmaceutical industry with an extensive teaching and academic research background in pharmaceutical biotechnology. He has published half a dozen highly acclaimed books on various aspects of protein biotechnology. He is on the editorial board of several biopharmaceutical journals and is closely affiliated with the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology, serving as its scientific secretary.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Chapter 1. Pharmaceuticals, biologies and biopharmaceuticals.
Chapter 2. The drug development process. Chapter 3. The drug manufacturing
process. Chapter 4. The cytokines--the interferon family. Chapter 5.
Cytokines: interleukins and tumour necrosis factor. Chapter 6. Haemopoietic
growth factors. Chapter 7. Growth factors. Chapter 8. Hormones of
therapeutic interest. Chapter 9. Blood products and therapeutic enzymes.
Chapter 10. Antibodies, vaccines and adjuvants. Chapter 11. Nucleic acid
therapeutics. Appendix 1. Biopharmaceuticals thus far approved in the USA
or European Union. Appendix 2. Some Internet addresses relevant to the
biopharmaceutical sector. Appendix 3. Two selected monographs reproduced
from the European Pharmacopoeia with permission from the European
Commission: I. Products of recombinant DNA Technology; II. Interferon a -2
concentrated solution. Appendix 4. Manufacture of biological medicinal
products for human use. (Annex 2 from The Rules Governing Medicinal
Products in the European Community, Vol. 4, Good Manufacturing Practices
for Medicinal Products). Index.

Rezensionen

"...contains just about everything that anyone would want to know about the subject...It s all here in this easy-to-read textbook." ( Biochemistry and Molecular Education , March/April 2004)
"...well written... (and) copiously illustrated..." (Chemistry & Industry, 17th January 2005)

"This book should be recommended reading for all under-graduate course in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences ...". (Cell Biochemistry & Function, March-April 2005)