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https://t.me/MBS_MedicalBooksStore 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book Any screen. Any time. Anywhere. Activate the eBook version of this title at no additional charge. Student Consult eBooks give you the power to browse and find content, view enhanced images, share notes and highlights—both online and offline. Unlock your eBook today. 1 Visit studentconsult.inkling.com/redeem Scan this QR code to redeem your eBook through your mobile device: 2 Scratch off your code 3 Type code into “Enter Code” box 4 Click “Redeem” 5 Log in or Sign up 6 Go to “My Library” Place Peel Off It’s that easy! Sticker Here For technical assistance: email [email protected] call 1-800-401-9962 (inside the US) call +1-314-447-8200 (outside the US) Use of the current edition of the electronic version of this book (eBook) is subject to the terms of the nontransferable, limited license granted on studentconsult.inkling.com. Access to the eBook is limited to the first individual who redeems the PIN, located on the inside cover of this book, at studentconsult.inkling.com and may not be transferred to another party by resale, lending, or other means. 2015v1.0 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book DALE’S Pharmacology CONDENSED 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book This page intentionally left blank 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book THIRD EDITION DALE’S Pharmacology CONDENSED Clive Page Simon Pitchford OBE, PhD BSc, PhD Director, Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science Institute of Pharmaceutical Science King's College London King's College London, London, United Kingdom London, United Kingdom 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book Copyright © 2021 by Elsevier LTD. All rights reserved. Previous editions copyrighted 2004 and 2009 The right of Clive Page and Simon Pitchford to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Details on how to seek permission, further information about the Publisher’s permissions policies and our arrangements with organizations such as the Copyright Clearance Center and the Copyright Licensing Agency, can be found at our website: www.elsevier.com/permissions. This book and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by the Publisher (other than as may be noted herein). Notice Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds or experiments described herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. To the fullest extent of the law, no responsibility is assumed by Elsevier, authors, editors or contributors for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein. ISBN: 978-0-7020-7818-7 Content Strategist: Alexandra Mortimer Content Development Specialist: Rae Robertson/Kevin Travers Publishing Services Manager: Shereen Jameel Senior Project Manager: Kamatchi Madhavan Design: Patrick Ferguson Marketing Manager: Heidi Splane Printed in China Last digit is the print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book Contents 1 Preface 2 17 Drugs and the endocrine and metabolic systems 92 2 Pharmacology, drug names and classification 18 Drugs and the renal system 102 systems 3 19 Drugs and the pulmonary system 104 3 G eneral principles of drug action 5 20 Drugs and the musculoskeletal system 107 4 M olecular aspects of drug action 11 21 Drugs and the gastrointestinal tract 110 5 P harmacokinetic and other factors influencing drug 22 Drugs and the genitourinary system 112 action 18 23 Drugs and the skin 113 6 P harmacodynamics and the measurement of drug action 26 24 Drugs and the eye 118 7 D rug discovery and the development of small 25 Drugs and the ear 120 molecules 31 26 Drugs used in anaesthesia 123 8 D rug discovery and the development of biologicals 34 27 Drug use in disorders of nutrition 127 9 D rug safety, toxicology and 28 Drug use in dentistry 128 pharmacovigilance 39 29 Antiviral drugs 134 10 R egulation of drug use 41 30 Antibacterial drugs 137 11 O utline of transmission and drug action in the 31 Antifungal drugs 144 nervous system 42 32 Drugs and parasites: anti-protozoal and 12 D rugs and neurological disorders 56 anti-helminthic drugs 145 13 D rugs and pain 67 33 Drugs and cancer 148 14 D rugs and the cardiovascular system 70 34 Prescribing and personalizing drug treatments 151 15 D rugs and blood: haematopoiesis and 35 Venoms, toxins, poisons and herbs 153 haemostasis 80 36 Drug dependence and drug abuse 156 16 D rugs and the inflammatory and immune response 86 Index 159 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book This page intentionally left blank 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book DALE’S Pharmacology CONDENSED 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book 1 Preface Pharmacology Condensed has been written as a companion vol- just as small chemical entities are. We have given the subject of ume to Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology. Each theme has been antibody discovery and development the same prominence at the condensed to a few pages to enable students to retrieve the most front of the textbook (rather than the back) as that of traditional pertinent concepts and facts quickly. We consider an understand- small molecules, especially given the expansion of biologics from ing of pharmacology is best gained by appreciating the integrative inflammatory and autoimmune disorders to cancer therapy and nature of body systems, and thus we have arranged the chapters beyond: for example, the current interest in inflammation and here to represent this learning context that is nicely represented neurodegeneration, or the worrying issue of increased antibiotic in further detail in Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology and Integrated resistance. A pharmacologist in the twenty-first century therefore Pharmacology by Page et al. As such, chapter headings, and some needs to understand immunology and antibody design to the same figures and tables, where pertinent, have been utilized from these extent that pharmacologists are knowledgeable about physiology textbooks to make their cross-reference obvious and intentional. and drug actions on the nervous system. We have made some minor changes to this edition to highlight Pharmacology is an applied discipline that has mathematical at the front of the book the processes a research team has under- principles based on the physics of molecular interactions (the Hill- taken to discover and develop a drug. We have also highlighted Langmuir equation) at the core. We encourage readers of this book the safety and toxicology assessment of any new drug, regulatory to remember that whilst pharmacology, as a biological subject, is law, and pharmacovigilance once approved. By doing this we based on experimentation via scientific method to observe actions, hope the reader understands that pharmacology is a dynamic, live the concepts and predictive qualities are based firmly on logic, and discipline and the application of the principles of pharmacology to embrace this will serve to improve understanding of receptor are requisite to the continued successful introduction of efficacious theory (molecular physics), signalling processes (functional selec- and safe drugs for use as medicines. This occurs through the con- tivity and biased agonism), and modelling of tissue and whole tinual challenge of predicting drug tolerability via the prism of the body integrated responses (quorum sensing of cell populations). therapeutic index. Any research into the number of US Food and As with the previous edition of Pharmacology Condensed, our Drug Administration (FDA) approvals for novel chemical enti- aim is to pinpoint the essential aspects of pharmacology in a precise ties and biologicals over the last 25 years will prove to the reader manner so that the reader has the confidence to recall or research that this period of drug discovery is as buoyant and exciting as more detailed material. This approach might be useful for anyone any time preceding it. Biologicals, and specifically antibodies, are preparing for examinations, or for scientists in need of reprisal of a very important and expanding therapeutic consideration and distant and forgotten topics. therefore a topic that pharmacologists must embrace so that the characteristics of these molecules can be predicted and assessed Clive Page and Simon Pitchford, London, December 2019 2 07/18/2020 - tp-dade3bc8-c8d3-11ea-953a-024 (temp temp) - Dale's Pharmacology Condensed E-Book

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