Practical Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy

Contents: Preface to the first edition. 1. Introduction. 2. New drug discovery process. 3. Animal behavioural models for testing anti-anxiety and nootropic agents. 4. Experiments on isolated preparations. 5. Experiments on intact preparations. 6. Clinical pharmacy. 7. Biostatistics. Appendix. Index.

"Practical Pharmacology and clinical Pharmacy is a new book which describes in detail the experimental aspects of pharmacology and incorporates the basic principles of clinical pharmacy practice exercises needed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of pharmacy. Both these aspects have become very important in the changing global scenario of drug discovery and the role of pharmacist in clinical pharmacy. The clinical pharmacy aspect has been covered under a separate chapter. Several clinical problems have been mentioned as case studies and exercises. The book is expected to serve the needs of pharmaceutical sciences students in particular and also students of other related profession such as medicine, dentistry and nursing."