short history of the drug receptor concept
By: Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle, Robert Francis Halliwell.
Contributors: Maehle, Andreas-Holger, 1957-; Halliwell, Robert Francis, 1957-
Series: Science, technology, and medicine in modern history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230554153
Subjects: Drug receptors -- History; Receptors, Drug -- history; Biomedical Research -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Pharmacology -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paul Ehrlich and his receptor concept; title: The development of the concept of drug receptors in the physiological research of J.N. Langley; title: The receptors and scientific pharmacology I : the critics of the receptor idea and alternative theories of drug action, c. 1905-1935; title: The receptors and scientific pharmacology II : the critics of the receptor idea and alternative research strands : the transmitter theory, c. 1905-1935; title: Quantitative arguments for the existence of drug receptors and the development of the receptor occupancy theory, c. 1910-1960; title: The dual adrenaline receptor theory of Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914-1983) and its application in drug development between 1950 and 1970; title: The emergence of molecular pharmacology.