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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.

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

      • 2nd Edition
      • February 18, 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.

    • Biofarmacia y farmacocinética

      • 3rd Edition
      • February 14, 2025
      • Antonio Aguilar Ros + 3 more
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Esta nueva edición actualiza plenamente contenidos y conceptos, abordando los principales modelos de cálculo de la Biofarmacia y Farmacocinética a través de la resolución de problemas, todo ello en un estilo riguroso y con una perspectiva eminentemente práctica. Incorpora nuevos capítulos sobre ajuste posológico en insuficiencia renal, y sobre modelos farmacocinéticos/far... (PK/PD), así como un capítulo final consistente en 50 cuestiones tipo test para estudio y repaso. Para esta edición se han incorporado además nuevos autores.Los capítulos comienzan con un breve repaso del esquema del modelo y de las ecuaciones que posteriormente se utilizan en los problemas, que se resuelven paso a paso a continuación. La obra está dirigida tanto a los estudiantes de la materia como a los profesionales de distintos ámbitos que deseen profundizar y ampliar sus conocimientos en Biofarmacia y Farmacocinética. Se ofrece acceso a la versión electrónica completa del libro a través de la plataforma VitalSource. Esta versión incluye los siguientes contenidos complementarios: Problemas extra por capítulo, con sus soluciones; Enlaces a archivos para la impresión de papel milimetrado y semilogarítmico para la elaboración de gráficas, Enlaces a archivos Excel (con complemento SOLVER) para el cálculo y elaboración de gráficas, mediante regresión no lineal de los distintos modelos de biofarmacia y farmacocinética que se desarrollan en el libro.

    • Targeting Enzymes in the Brain

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 102
      • February 5, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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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
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      • eBook
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      Written by multidisciplinary experts in the fields of pharmaceutical and patient safety, Pharmacovigilance: A Practical Approach, Second 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.

    • Exosome Communication

      • 1st Edition
      • November 15, 2024
      • Dalapathi Gugulothu + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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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
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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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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      • eBook
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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.

    • Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry: Roadmaps

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 62
      • October 30, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry: Roadmaps, Volume 62 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. This release provides a compendium of information on newly approved drugs and compounds entering late-stage clinical trials, making it a valuable resource for graduate students pursuing research in medicinal chemistry

    • Quinone-Based Compounds in Drug Discovery

      • 1st Edition
      • October 25, 2024
      • Umar Ali Dar + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Quinone-Based Compounds in Drug Discovery: Trends and Applications provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the latest advances in the field of drug discovery using quinone-based materials. The book covers various aspects of quinone-based materials such as their synthesis, characterization, and applications in drug discovery, consolidating current research. It introduces quinones in the pharmacology context and then describes current developments in drugs for key diseases and conditions. Final chapters deal with the regulatory and commercial framework to take quinone-based drugs to the market.This book will benefit a wide range of readers, including researchers, scientists, and graduate students in the field of drug discovery. Chemists and biochemists will also benefit from the contents of this book.

    • Human Microbiome Drug Targets

      • 1st Edition
      • October 23, 2024
      • Genevieve Dable-Tupas + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Human Microbiome Drug Targets: Modern Approaches in Disease Management presents fundamental information on the human microbiome, looking into the relationship between the microbiome and how it changes with specific diseases. Delving into the multifaceted roles of the microbiome in health and disease, the book's chapters discuss the role of the human microbiome in the pathophysiologic understanding of relevant diseases or disorders and their management. As changes in the human microbiome can provide clues to the probable cause and effect of diseases or disorders, as well as the impacts of therapy or intervention, this book is a welcomed addition to the existing research.Explaining how a better understanding of the microbiome and its impact on health and disease can pave the way for future discoveries leading to better health outcomes, this book will be of interest to drug developers, medicinal chemists, microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, biochemists, and students.

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