pharmacology primer
Subtitle: theory, applications, and methods
By: Terry Kenakin.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780123705990
Subjects: Pharmacology; Drugs; Chemicals -- Physiological effect; 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: Target- and system-based strategies for drug discovery.; title: "Hit" to drug: lead optimization.; title: Statistics and experimental design.; title: Selected pharmacological methods.; title: Glossary.; title: Appendices.