A pharmacology primer
Subtitle: theory, application, and methods
By: Terry P. Kenakin.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780123745859
Subjects: Pharmacology, Experimental; Receptors, Drug -- physiology; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Pharmacology -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is pharmacology?; title: How different tissues process drug response; title: Drug receptor theory; title: Pharmacological assay formats : binding; title: Agonists : the measurement of affinity and efficacy in functional assays; title: Orthosteric drug antagonism; title: Allosteric drug antagonism; title: The process of drug discovery; title: Pharmacokinetics; title: Target- and system-based strategies for drug discovery; title: 'Hit' to drug : lead optimization; title: Statistics and experimental design; title: Selected pharmacological methods.