Pharmacology Principles and Practice

This unique and much needed textbook meets the rapidly emerging needs of programs training pharmacologic scientists seeking careers in basic research and drug discovery rather than such applied fields as pharmacy and medicine. While the market is crowded with many clinical and therapeutic pharmacology textbooks, the field of pharmacology is booming with the prospects of discovering new drugs, and virtually no extant textbook meets this need at the student level. The market is so bereft of such approaches that many pharmaceutical companies will adopt Hacker, et al. to help train new drug researchers. The boom in pharmacology is driven by the recent decryption of the human genome and enormous progress in controlling genes and synthesizing proteins, making new and even custom drug design possible. This book makes use of these discoveries in presenting its topics, moving logically from drug receptors to the target molecules drug researchers seek, covering such modern topics along the way as side effects, drug resistance, Pharmacogenomics, and even nutriceuticals, one in a string of culminating chapters on the drug discovery process.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Routes of Administration 2. Membranes and Drug Action 3. Drug Absorption 4. Drug Transporters in ADME 5. Drug Distribution 6. Drug Metabolism 7. Drug Excretion 8. Pharmacokinetics 9. Receptor-ligand Interaction 10. Molecular Targets for Drug Actions 11. Cell Signaling Pathways 12. Immunopharmacology 13. Drug Toxicity 14. Adverse Drug Reactions 15. Cell Death 16. Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics 17. Drug Tolerance, Dependence, Addiction 18. Drug Resistance 19. Role of Molecular Biology in Modern Pharmacology 20. Drug Discovery – Sources of New Drugs 21. Drug Development – Pre-clinical 22. Drug Development – Clinical 23. Nutriceuticals 24. The FDA