Pharmacology Books

New and Published Books

1. Basic Pharmacokinetics, Second Edition

   By Mohsen A. Hedaya

   Series: Array

   Knowledge of pharmacokinetics is critical to understanding the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs. It is therefore vital to those engaged in the discovery, development, and preclinical and clinical evaluation of drugs, as well as practitioners involved in the clinical use...

   Published February 8th 2012 by CRC Press
2. The Minipig in Biomedical Research

   Edited by Peter A. McAnulty, Anthony D. Dayan, Niels-Christian Ganderup, Kenneth L. Hastings

   The Minipig in Biomedical Research is a comprehensive resource for research scientists on the potential and use of the minipig in basic and applied biomedical research, and the development of drugs and chemicals. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, and drawing on the authors’ global...

   Published December 18th 2011 by CRC Press
3. Dopamine – Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

   Edited by Susan Jones

   Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

   The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
4. Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery, Second Edition

   By Ram I. Mahato, Ajit S. Narang

   Series: Pharmacy Education Series

   Completely revised and updated, this second edition of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery elucidates the basic principles of pharmaceutics, dosage form design, and drug delivery. The authors integrate aspects of physical pharmacy, biopharmaceuticals, drug delivery, and biotechnology. The...

   Published October 24th 2011 by CRC Press
5. Anticancer Agents from Natural Products, Second Edition

   Edited by Gordon M. Cragg, David G. I. Kingston, David J. Newman

   The approach to drug discovery from natural sources has yielded many important new pharmaceuticals inaccessible by other routes. In many cases the isolated natural product may not be an effective drug for any of several reasons, but it nevertheless may become a drug through chemical modification or...

   Published October 9th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources, Second Edition

   Natural Products as Lead Compounds in Drug Discovery

   Edited by Corrado Tringali

   The first edition of Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources was published in a period of renewed attention to biologically active compounds of natural origin. This trend has continued and intensified—natural products are again under the spotlight, in particular for their possible pharmacological...

   Published September 26th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Introduction to Natural Products Chemistry

   Edited by Rensheng Xu, Yang Ye, Weimin Zhao

   Natural products chemistry—the chemistry of metabolite products of plants, animals and microorganisms—is involved in the investigation of biological phenomena ranging from drug mechanisms to gametophytes and receptors and drug metabolism in the human body to protein and enzyme chemistry....

   Published July 19th 2011 by CRC Press
8. Drug Delivery Systems, Third Edition

   By Vasant V. Ranade, John B. Cannon

   Drug delivery technologies represent a vast and vital area of research and development in pharmaceutics. The demand for innovative drug delivery systems continues to grow, and this growth drives a variety of new developments. Building on the foundation provided by the second edition, Drug Delivery...

   Published April 24th 2011 by CRC Press
9. Dermatokinetics of Therapeutic Agents

   Edited by S. Narasimha Murthy

   Novel drug delivery technologies strive to bypass challenging biological layers to elicit desired pharmacological activity. The skin, one of our key defensive barriers, allows certain topically applied substances and toxins to pass. The dermatokinetics of a drug determines the efficacy of...

   Published April 14th 2011 by CRC Press
10. TRP Channels

    Edited by Michael X. Zhu

    Series: Methods in Signal Transduction Series

    The rapid expansion of the TRP field has generated a large amount of excellent original work across many different research fields. However, investigators are not necessarily familiar with the pros and cons of the variety of methods used to study TRP channels. Because of functional and genetic...

    Published April 13th 2011 by CRC Press