422 Pages
by
CRC Press
422 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Drug resistance is a growing problem in today's society. Successful drugs are constantly being developed but there is always the risk that a small percent of the drug's target will be immune. These survivors can then lead to a new population, resistant to the action of this drug. New drugs are continuously under development to combat this problem, but these can, in turn, lead to new resistant... Read more
Natural selection and drug resistance; drug and pesticide resistance in fungi; viral drug resistance; herbicide resistance; drug resistance in insects; the mechanisms of drug action and resistance in malaria; multidrug resistance in mammalian cells mediated by members of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily; drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy; oxidative stress responses in mammalian cells; modulation and circumvention of drug resistance.
Biography
John D. Hayes, C. Roland Wolf, Biomedical Research Centre, University of Dundee, UK.
