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Principles of pharmacology : a tropical approach / D.T. Okpako.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 574 pages. : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521340950
  • 0521349036
  • 9780521349031
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.1 21 O.D.P
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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