D. T. Okpako

Principles of Pharmacology

A Tropical Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides a useful and informative introduction to basic pharmacological principles and practice in the context of tropical medicine and diseases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 949g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121569
• ISBN-10: 0521121566
• Artikelnr.: 27065644

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. General Background to Drug Usage in the Tropics: 1. Traditional medicine
2. The problems of availability and quality of modern drugs in the tropics
Part II. Fundamental Pharmacodynamic Principles: 3. Measurement of drug response
4. Receptors and drug response
Part III. Fundamental Principles in Drug Disposition: 5. Drug administration and factors affecting drug metabolism
6. Pharmacokinetic principles
Part IV. Factors Affecting Drug Metabolism: 7. The influence of malnutrition and food-derived intoxicants
8. Genetic factors affecting drug action
Part V. Selective Toxicity: 9. Antimicrobial drugs
10. Antiprotozoal drugs
11. Anthelmintics
12. Anticancer and antiviral drugs
13. Drug resistance
14. Strategies for the development of new drugs
Part VI. Systematic Pharmacology: 15. Drug targets in the nervous system
16. Noradrenergic mechanisms
17. Cholinergic mechanisms
18. Anaesthesia
19. Pain and inflammation
20. Drugs acting on the central nervous system
21. Cardiovascular and renal systems
22. Haemopoietic system
23. Endocrine system
24. Local hormones (autocoids)
Index.