Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 15e

✍ Scribed by Bertram Katzung, Anthony Trevor

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Medical
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1761
• Edition: 15
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Master key pharmacological concepts and practices with the most comprehensive, authoritative guide available 

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Presented in full-color and packed with hundreds of illustrations, Basic and Clinical Pharmacology is the wide-ranging, engaging guide students have counted on for decades. 

Organized to reflect the course sequence in many pharmacology courses and in integrated curricula, the guide covers the important concepts students need to know about the science of pharmacology and its application to clinical practice. This edition has been extensively updated to provide expanded coverage of transporters, pharmacogenomics, and new drugs

Delivers the knowledge and insight needed to excel in every facet of pharmacology!.

• Encompasses all aspects of medical pharmacology, including botanicals and over-the-counter drugs
• Major revisions of the chapters on immunopharmacology, antiseizure, antipsychotic, antidepressant, antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral drugs, prostaglandins, and central nervous system neurotransmitters
• New chapter on the increasingly relevant topic of cannabis pharmacology
• Each chapter opens with a case study, covers drug groups and prototypes, and closes with summary tables and diagrams that encapsulate important information
• Revised full-color illustrations provide more information about drug mechanisms and effects and help clarify important concepts
• Trade Name/Generic Name tables are provided at end of each chapter for easy reference when writing a chart order or prescription
• Includes descriptions of important new drugs released through May 2019
• New and updated coverage of general concepts relating to recently discovered receptors, receptor mechanisms, and drug transporters

  
  

✦ Table of Contents

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Chapter 1_ Introduction_ The Nature of Drugs & Drug Development & Regulation
Chapter 2_ Drug Receptors & Pharmacodynamics
Chapter 3_ Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics_ Rational Dosing & the Time Course of Drug Action
Chapter 4_ Drug Biotransformation
Chapter 5_ Pharmacogenomics
Chapter 6_ Introduction to Autonomic Pharmacology
Chapter 7_ Cholinoceptor-Activating & Cholinesterase-Inhibiting Drugs
Chapter 8_ Cholinoceptor-Blocking Drugs
Chapter 9_ Adrenoceptor Agonists & Sympathomimetic Drugs
Chapter 10_ Adrenoceptor Antagonist Drugs
Chapter 11_ Antihypertensive Agents
Chapter 12_ Vasodilators & the Treatment of Angina Pectoris
Chapter 13_ Drugs Used in Heart Failure
Chapter 14_ Agents Used in Cardiac Arrhythmias
Chapter 15_ Diuretic Agents
Chapter 16_ Histamine, Serotonin, & the Ergot Alkaloids
Chapter 17_ Vasoactive Peptides
Chapter 18_ The Eicosanoids_ Prostaglandins, Thromboxanes, Leukotrienes, & Related Compounds
Chapter 19_ Nitric Oxide
Chapter 20_ Drugs Used in Asthma & Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chapter 21_ Introduction to the Pharmacology of CNS Drugs
Chapter 22_ Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs
Chapter 23_ The Alcohols
Chapter 24_ Antiseizure Drugs
Chapter 25_ General Anesthetics
Chapter 26_ Local Anesthetics
Chapter 27_ Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
Chapter 28_ Pharmacologic Management of Parkinsonism & Other Movement Disorders
Chapter 29_ Antipsychotic Agents & Lithium
Chapter 30_ Antidepressant Agents
Chapter 31_ Opioid Agonists & Antagonists
Chapter 32_ Drugs of Abuse
Chapter 33_ Agents Used in Cytopenias; Hematopoietic Growth Factors
Chapter 34_ Drugs Used in Disorders of Coagulation
Chapter 35_ Agents Used in Dyslipidemia
Chapter 36_ Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs, Nonopioid Analgesics, & Drugs Used in Gout
Chapter 37_ Hypothalamic & Pituitary Hormones
Chapter 38_ Thyroid & Antithyroid Drugs
Chapter 39_ Adrenocorticosteroids & Adrenocortical Antagonists
Chapter 40_ The Gonadal Hormones & Inhibitors
Chapter 41_ Pancreatic Hormones & Glucose-Lowering Drugs
Chapter 42_ Agents That Affect Bone Mineral Homeostasis
Chapter 43_ Beta-Lactam & Other Cell Wall- & Membrane-Active Antibiotics
Chapter 44_ Tetracyclines, Macrolides, Clindamycin, Chloramphenicol, Streptogramins, Oxazolidinones, & Pleuromutilins
Chapter 45_ Aminoglycosides & Spectinomycin
Chapter 46_ Sulfonamides, Trimethoprim, & Quinolones
Chapter 47_ Antimycobacterial Drugs
Chapter 48_ Antifungal Agents
Chapter 49_ Antiviral Agents
Chapter 50_ Miscellaneous Antimicrobial Agents; Disinfectants, Antiseptics, & Sterilants
Chapter 51_ Clinical Use of Antimicrobial Agents
Chapter 52_ Antiprotozoal Drugs
Chapter 53_ Pharmacology of the Antihelminthic Drugs
Chapter 54_ Cancer Chemotherapy
Chapter 55_ Immunopharmacology
Chapter 56_ Introduction to Toxicology_ Occupational & Environmental
Chapter 57_ Heavy Metal Intoxication & Chelators
Chapter 58_ Management of the Poisoned Patient
Chapter 59_ Special Aspects of Perinatal & Pediatric Pharmacology
Chapter 60_ Special Aspects of Geriatric Pharmacology
Chapter 61_ Dermatologic Pharmacology
Chapter 62_ Drugs Used in the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Diseases
Chapter 63_ Cannabinoid Drugs
Chapter 64_ Therapeutic & Toxic Potential of Over-the-Counter Agents
Chapter 65_ Dietary Supplements & Herbal Medications_
Chapter 66_ Rational Prescribing & Prescription Writing
Chapter 67_ Important Drug Interactions & Their Mechanisms
Appendix_ Vaccines, Immune Globulins, & Other Complex Biologic Products