Textbook of Pharmacology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Medicinal pharmacological and biochemical properties. 3. Principles of drug action. 4. Factors affecting in drug biotransformation. 5. Pharmacokinetics. 6. Applied pharmacokinetics modeling. 7. Nervous system of psychopharmaca work. 8. Combined effect of drugs. 9. Aminoglycoside dosage calculation. 10. Antimicrobial spectrum of vancomycin. 11. Drug absorption and distribution. 12. Drug and carbohydrate metabolism. 13. Pharmacodynamics. 14. Antibiotic drug resistance. 15. DNA microarrays in pharmacogenomics. Index. Pharmacology is currently one of the fast-growing branches of medical science. Pharmacology is the study of drugs. It involves examining the interactions of chemical substances with living systems, with a view to understanding the properties of drugs and their actions including the interactions between drug molecules and drug receptors and how these interactions elicit and effect. Our pharmacology courses examine the different classes of drugs, how they are used therapeutically, their mechanisms of action, how they are handled by the human body and their role in society. Pharmacology provides the scientific basis and principles for a variety of special applications such as the study of drug actions in the health sciences, the use of drugs as therapeutic agents in medicine or as tools in scientific research and the development and regulation of pharmaceuticals.