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Books in Pharmacology

Elsevier's Pharmacology collection studies how drugs interact with biological systems to improve health and treat disease. It covers pharmacodynamics, exploring drug effects on biology, and pharmacokinetics, studying how the body affects drugs. Branches like Pharmacogenetics. Essential for pharmacologists, this collection offers invaluable insights into drug interactions, efficacy, and safety, crucial for advancing drug development and improving patient outcomes.

Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation

  • 2nd Edition
  • July 1, 2025
  • Rebecca Sheets + 6 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation: Vaccines and Biotechnology Medicines serves as an introduction to the international regulatory arena in which biologicals are developed and offers an overview of the processes and insight into the scientific concepts underpinning global regulations. In this new edition the book provides more in-depth coverage of Quality by Design, Combination Products, Quality Target Product Profiles, Risk Management Plans and REMS, and switching from reliance on in vivo to in vitro analytical methods. This new edition also reflects the new developments and processes accelerated by the COVID-19 vaccine experience, including emergency use authorizations and conditional marking authorizations. New pedagogic elements and case studies have been added to improve learning outcomes for students. This book provides multiple levels of readership with guidance on basic concepts, a detailed look at regulatory challenges, and practical insight into how regulators consider regulatory science and regulatory process issues across various regions with emphasis on the European Medicines Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Graduate students will benefit from the new pedagogic features. Regulatory professionals will have in Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation: Vaccines and Biotechnology Medicines a complete guide to navigate through the approval process.

Medicinal Plant Research in Africa

  • 2nd Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Victor Kuete
  • English
  • Hardback
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Medicinal Plant Research in Africa, second edition is an updated and complete reference on the pharmacology of most relevant African species and their phytochemical properties. Although pharmacopoeias of most African countries are available and contain an impressive number of medicinal plants used for various therapeutic purposes, however there was no global standard book on the nature and specificity of chemicals isolated in African medicinal plants. This book has set the standard when it first published in 2013 and now is updated with novel phytochemicals belonging to diverse classes of terpenoids, phenolics, and alkaloids. The first chapter cover monoterpenes and related phytochemicals and is followed by sesquiterpenes on chapter two. Chapter tri reviews diterpenoids and chapter four provides an overview of triterpenes and steroids. Essential oils, simple phenols, phenolic acids and related esters come next in chapters five and six, respectively. The following chapters cover coumarins, flavonoids, quinones, xanthones, lignans and stilbenes. Tannins, alkaloids, and ceramides. Chapters 15 to 20 focus on specific health conditions starting with antibiotic infection, antimalarial and other antiprotozoal diseases, cytotoxic and anticancer activity, anti-inflammatory and analgesic action, antidiabetic botanicals and the applications of African plant phytochemicals on reproductive, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems conditions. The final chapter covers the market and industry updates since the first edition published. "Medicinal Plant Research in Africa, 2 Ed." provides a complete overview of the main phytochemical principles present in the African flora and their pharmaceutical use. Pharmaceutical scientists, Ethnopharmacists, botanists, and medicinal chemists will benefit from the content organization and the inclusion of the most recent methods for structural identification of phytochemicals, pharmacological techniques, and data interpretation.

Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and Their Components

  • 2nd Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Mahendra Rai
  • English
  • Hardback
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Fighting Multidrug Resistance with Herbal Extracts, Essential Oils and their Components, Second Edition offers pharmaceutical and life sciences researchers an overview on the most relevant studies for fighting specific multidrug-resistant (MDR) microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoans, viruses, and fungi using natural products. This new edition expands the coverage of uses of traditional medicinal plants to against MDR, includes new chapters on the potential of plant-derived bioactive compounds for reversal of multidrug resistances, covers the use of flavonoids to combat microbes and cancer, and the use of nanoparticles as drug delivery vehicle.The need to combat multidrug-resistant microorganisms is an urgent one. This book provides important coverage of mechanism of action, the advantages and disadvantages of using herbal extracts, essential oils and their components, and more, to aid researchers in effective antimicrobial drug discovery.

Targeting Enzymes in the Brain

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 102
  • March 1, 2025
  • Takashi Tsukamoto
  • English
  • Hardback
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Targeting Enzymes in the Brain series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Pharmacovigilance

  • 2nd Edition
  • November 20, 2024
  • Thao Doan + 4 more
  • English
Written by multidisciplinary experts in the fields of pharmaceutical and patient safety, Pharmacovigilance: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition, provides a succinct, easy-to-digest overview of an increasingly critical area of medical safety. From cover to cover, this concise resource offers essential information for physicians and other health care professionals, clinical researchers, and regulators who need a comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the principles and practice of pharmacovigilance.

PROTAC and similar technologies

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 63
  • November 16, 2024
  • Radim Nencka
  • English
  • Hardback
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Annual Reports on Medicinal Chemistry: PROTAC and similar technologies Volume 63 in this series Annual Reports on Medicinal Chemistry, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Exosome Communication

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Dalapathi Gugulothu + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Exosome Communication: Advances in Research and Therapeutics for Health and Disease serves as a crucial reference for pharmaceutical scientists, focusing on the key qualities of exosomes as drug delivery vehicles. Exosomes are intracellular membrane-based vesicles with diverse compositions, offering significant advantages over traditional drug delivery systems such as liposomes and polymeric nanoparticles, due to their nonimmunogenic nature. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of exosomes, starting with their history and development, understanding extracellular vesicles and biogenesis, and techniques for isolation and characterization. This book also addresses critical considerations like quality control, heterogeneity reduction, regulatory and ethical aspects, clinical trials, and scale-up manufacturing.

Emerging Therapeutic Targets and Drug Delivery Approaches in IBD

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 101
  • November 12, 2024
  • Florin Selaru
  • English
  • Hardback
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Emerging Therapeutic Targets and Drug Delivery Approaches in IBD, Volume 101 in this ongoing series, highlights new advances, with this volume presenting interesting chapters on timely topics, including Fibrosis in IBD – AXL as a Promising Therapeutic Target, Developing a pathway to test anti-fibrotic drugs in Crohn’s disease, Emerging therapeutics for the management of intestinal fibrosis and strictures, GCPII for IBD, Fistulas/stem cell products for IBD/Crohn’s, The landscape of new therapeutic opportunities for IBD, TL1A : A Model For The Use Of Precision Medicine For The Treatment of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, Dectin-1 as a therapeutic target for IBD, and more.Additional sections cover BRD4 as an Emerging Epigenetic Therapeutic Target for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Scripps - S1P, The potential of targeting TREM-1 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Microbiome therapies.

Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19

  • 1st Edition
  • November 6, 2024
  • Nabeelah Bibi Sadeer + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19: A Promising Response to the Global Unprecedented Pandemic presents comprehensive coverage of the pharmacological effects of natural products on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Sections provide traditional medicine approaches and their potential to prevent and treat COVID-19 infection, including traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, Persian, and Kampo medicine, alongside an overview of nutritional regimens and their therapeutic potential. Other sections cover natural molecules such as flavonoids, saponins, coumarins, alkaloids, terpenes, polysaccharides, and several microbial natural products of relevant action against viruses. Final chapters cover nanotherapeutic approaches.This is a valuable resource for researchers and academics in the fields of herbal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy and for professionals in the pharmaceutical industries and anyone interested in natural products and their application for therapeutic purposes.