Basic Pharmacology

✍ Scribed by R W Foster (Eds.)

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 472
• Edition: 3 Sub
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This third edition of ''Basic Pharmacology'' retains the overall objectives of the first. It aims to present accounts of drug actions and their mechanisms in a compact, inexpensive and up-to-date form. The book is therefore designed to help students of subjects allied to medicine to appreciate the rationale underlying the uses of drugs in therapeutics. The book is divided into sections. Each section follows a particular theme and is introduced by the relevant pharmacological general principles. Prompts to revise the relevant anatomical, biochemical or physiological concepts and data are also given. In each section, the major groups of drugs relevant to the theme are discussed with detailed expositions of the important type substances. Drugs of lesser importance are placed in proper context. Two key themes dominate the text. Selectivity (that is, the ability to chemically influence one kind of biological activity without modifying another) is the central theme of pharmacology. Such selectivity is relative, rather than absolute. This places the onus of responsibility for safe usage firmly on the intending exploiter of the properties of drugs. The principal changes that this third edition of ''Basic Pharmacology'' shows from the second are: updating (as of 1990) of the accounts of mechanisms of drug action; updating (after British National Formulary (BNF) 1990, Number 20) of the selection of drugs for discussion; movement of the section entitled General Pharmacology from last to first position; expansion of the chapters on adverse drug interactions, cardiac antidysrhythmic drugs, calcium channel blockers, local hormones and chemotherapy of bacterial infections; and the provision of new chapters on allergically determined hypersensitivity to drugs

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages ix-x
Introduction, Pages xi-xiv
List of abbreviations, Pages xv-xvii
1 - General pharmacology, Pages 1-54
2 - Drug action on peripheral excitable tissues – drugs acting on signalling and transduction mechanisms directly related to receptors for the neurotransmitters acetylcholine and noradrenaline, Pages 55-116
3 - Drug action on peripheral tissues – drugs acting on signalling and transduction mechanisms other than those directly related to receptors for neurotransmitters and hormones, Pages 117-150
4 - Endocrine pharmacology, Pages 151-208
5 - Drug action on the central nervous system, Pages 209-252
6 - Antiparasitic chemotherapy, Pages 253-303
7 - Drug disposition, Pages 304-365
8 - Clinical pharmacology, Pages 366-440
Suggested further reading, Pages 441-442
Index, Pages 443-461