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Title Basic Concepts in Pharmacology : What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class / Janet L. Stringer
Edition Sixth edition
Published New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2022
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Description 1 online resource : ill., figs., tables
Series McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.
Contents Chapter 1: Where to Start -- Part I: General Principles -- Chapter 2: Receptor Theory -- Chapter 3: Absorption, Distribution, and Clearance -- Chapter 4: Pharmacokinetics -- Chapter 5: Drug Metabolism and Renal Elimination -- Part II: Drugs that Affect the Autonomic Nervous System -- Chapter 6: Review of the Autonomic Nervous System -- Chapter 7: Cholinergic Agonists -- Chapter 8: Cholinergic Antagonists -- Chapter 9: Adrenergic Agonists -- Chapter 10: Adrenergic Antagonists -- Part III: Drugs that Affect the Cardiovascular System -- Chapter 11: Diuretics -- Chapter 12: RAS (ACE Inhibitors and ARBs) and CCB (Calcium Channel Blockers) -- Chapter 13: Antihypertensive Drugs -- Chapter 14: Drugs Used in Ischemic Heart Disease and Congestive Heart Failure -- Chapter 15: Antiarrhythmic Drugs -- Chapter 16: Drugs That Affect Blood -- Chapter 17: Lipid-Lowering Drugs -- Part IV: Drugs that Act on the Central Nervous System -- Chapter 18: Drugs Used in Dementia -- Chapter 19: Anxiolytic and Hypnotic Drugs -- Chapter 20: Drugs Used in Mood Disorders -- Chapter 21: Drugs Used in Thought Disorders -- Chapter 22: Drugs for Movement Disorders -- Chapter 23: Drugs for Seizure Disorders -- Chapter 24: Narcotics (Opiates) -- Chapter 25: General Anesthetics -- Chapter 26: Local Anesthetics -- Part V: Chemotherapeutic Agents -- Chapter 27: Introduction to Chemotherapy -- Chapter 28: Inhibitors of Cell Wall Synthesis -- Chapter 29: Protein Synthesis Inhibitors -- Chapter 30: Folate Antagonists -- Chapter 31: Quinolones and Urinary Tract Antiseptics -- Chapter 32: Drugs Used in Tuberculosis and Leprosy -- Chapter 33: Antifungal Drugs -- Chapter 34: Anthelmintic Drugs -- Chapter 35: Antiviral Drugs -- Chapter 36: Antiprotozoal Drugs -- Chapter 37: Anticancer Drugs -- Part VI: Drugs that Affect the Endocrine System -- Chapter 38: Adrenocortical Hormones -- Chapter 39: Sex Steroids -- Chapter 40: Thyroid and Parathyroid Drugs -- Chapter 41: Insulin, Glucagon, and Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs -- Part VII: Miscellaneous Drugs -- Chapter 42: Histamine and Antihistamines -- Chapter 43: Respiratory Drugs -- Chapter 44: Drugs That Affect the GI Tract -- Chapter 45: Nonnarcotic Analgesics and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs -- Chapter 46: Immunosuppressives -- Chapter 47: Drugs Used in Osteoporosis -- Chapter 48: Toxicology and Poisoning
Summary Basic Concepts in Pharmacology: What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class is not a conventional review book for pharmacology. It is a book to help you organize your attack on the hundreds of drugs covered in pharmacology classes today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Also issued in Online and PDF version
Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on January 03, 2022
Subject Pharmacological Phenomena
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Form Electronic book
Author Stringer, Janet L., editor.
LC no. 2021029458
ISBN 9781264264841 (print-ISBN)
1264264844 (print-ISBN)
9781264264858 (e-ISBN)
1264264852 (e-ISBN)
Other Titles Basic Concepts in Pharmacology: What You Need to Know for Each Drug Class, Sixth edition