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Title

Principles of pharmacology : the pathophysiologic basis of drug therapy / David E. Golan, editor-in-chief ; Armen H. Tashjian, Jr., deputy editor ; Ehrin J. Armstrong, April W. Armstrong, associate editors.

Publication

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Golan, David E.

Description

xxi, 985 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subjects

• Pharmacology
• Drug Therapy
• Physiology, Pathological

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Principles of pharmacology. c2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sect. I. Fundamental principles of pharmacology -- 1. Drug-receptor interactions -- 2. Pharmacodynamics -- 3. Pharmacokinetics -- 4. Drag metabolism -- 5. Drug toxicity -- Sect. II. Principles of neuropharmacology -- Sect. IIA. Fundamental principles of neuropharmacology -- 6. Principles of cellular excitability and electrochemical transmission -- 7. Principles of nervous system physiology and pharmacology -- Sect. IIB. Principles of autonomic and peripheral nervous system pharmacology -- 8. Cholinergic pharmacology -- 9. Adrenergic pharmacology -- 10. Local anesthetic pharmacology -- Sect. IIC. Principles of central nervous system pharmacology -- 11. Pharmacology of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission -- 12. Pharmacology of dopaminergic neurotransmission -- 13. Pharmacology of serotonergic and central adrenergic neurotransmission -- 14. Pharmacology of abnormal electrical neurotransmission in the central nervous system -- 15. General anesthetic pharmacology -- 16. Pharmacology of analgesia -- 17. Pharmacology of drug dependence and addiction -- Sect. III. Principles of cardiovascular pharmacology -- 18. Pharmacology of cardiac rhythm -- 19. Pharmacology of cardiac contractility -- 20. Pharmacology of volume regulation -- 21. Pharmacology of vascular tone -- 22. Pharmacology of hemostasis and thrombosis -- 23. Pharmacology of cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism -- 24. Integrative cardiovascular pharmacology : hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and heart failure -- Sect. IV. Principles of endocrine pharmacology -- 25. Pharmacology of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland -- 26. Pharmacology of the thyroid gland -- 27. Pharmacology of the adrenal cortex -- 28. Pharmacology of reproduction -- 29. Pharmacology of the endocrine pancreas -- 30. Pharmacology of bone mineral homeostasis -- Sect. V. Principles of chemotherapy -- 31. Principles of antimicrobial and antineoplastic pharmacology -- 32. Pharmacology of bacterial infections : DNA replication, transcription, and translation -- 33. Pharmacology of bacterial infections : cell wall synthesis -- 34. Pharmacology of fungal infections -- 35. Pharmacology of parasitic infections -- 36. Pharmacology of viral infections -- 37. Pharmacology of cancer : genome synthesis, stability, and maintenance -- 38. Pharmacology of cancer : signal transduction -- 39. Principles of combination chemotherapy -- Sect. VI. Principles of inflammation and immune pharmacology -- 40. Principles of inflammation and the immune system -- 41. Pharmacology of eicosanoids -- 42. Histamine pharmacology -- 43. Pharmacology of hematopoiesis and immunomodulation -- 44. Pharmacology of immunosuppression -- 45. Integrative inflammation pharmacology : peptic ulcer disease -- 46. Integrative inflammation pharmacology : asthma -- 47. Integrative inflammation pharmacology : gout -- Sect. VII. Fundamentals of drug development and regulation -- 48. Drug discovery and preclinical development -- 49. Clinical drug evaluation and regulatory approval -- 50. Systematic detection of adverse events in marketed drugs -- Sect. VIII. Poisoning by drugs and environmental toxins -- 51. Poisoning by drugs and environmental toxins -- Sect. IX. Frontiers in pharmacology -- 52. Pharmacogenomics -- 53. Protein-based therapies -- 54. Drug delivery modalities.

ISBN

• 9780781783552
• 0781783550

LCCN

2006037708

OCLC

• ocm76262148
• 76262148
• SCSB-8877776

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries