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General Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry
 
Molecules and Medicine
ISBN: 978-0-470-22749-7
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272 pages
August 2007, ©2007
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- Authoritatively co-written by a Nobel Laureate, this book offers a wide range of readers an understanding of medicinal agents and human illness at the molecular level.\
- Organized by disease category for easy use as a reference or teaching text, coverage includes inflammatory, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases, reproductive diseases, osteoporosis, glaucoma, ulcer, auto-immune and oxygen transport diseases, malignant diseases, and diseases of the central nervous system
- Focuses on more than 120 of the most important and commonly used drugs such as cholesterol lowering medicines, anti-clotting agents, oxytocins, Viagra, antibiotics, antimalarial, cancer drugs, and pain medicines (Aleve, analgesics, migraine medications), insomnia medications, anti-obesity medications, anti-smoking medications, anti-epileptic medications, and anti-depressants
- Provides a brief step-by-step how-to on reading and understanding chemical structures of molecules, followed by a complementary introduction to protein structures
- Supplementary focus sections provide a biomedical background to aid in understanding, with coverage including inflammation, metabolic syndrome, immunology, drug resistance, cancer and neurotransmission
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Full and thoroughly referenced to the primary literature, all protein structures are also linked to the publicly available online protein database
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