Principles of Pharmacology: The Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug Therapy

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David E. Golan
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008 - Medical - 985 pages

This primary textbook for a first course in pharmacology offers an integrated, systems-based, and mechanism-based approach to understanding drug therapy. Each chapter focuses on a target organ system, begins with a clinical case, and incorporates cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology to explain how and why different drug classes are effective for diseases in that organ system.

Over 400 two-color illustrations show molecular, cellular, biochemical, and pathophysiologic processes underlying diseases and depict targets of drug therapy. Each Second Edition chapter includes a drug summary table presenting mechanism, clinical applications, adverse effects, contraindications, and therapeutic considerations. New chapters explain how drugs produce adverse effects and describe the life cycle of drug development.

The fully searchable online text and an image bank are available on thePoint.

 

Contents

II
3
III
19
IV
31
V
49
VI
63
VII
75
VIII
77
IX
79
XXXVII
509
XXXVIII
529
XXXIX
547
XL
565
XLI
567
XLII
585
XLIII
601
XLIV
619

X
91
XI
107
XII
109
XIII
129
XIV
145
XV
161
XVI
163
XVII
185
XVIII
207
XIX
225
XX
239
XXI
263
XXII
283
XXIII
305
XXIV
307
XXV
329
XXVI
345
XXVII
367
XXVIII
387
XXIX
417
XXX
439
XXXIII
467
XXXIV
469
XXXV
483
XXXVI
493
XLV
631
XLVI
651
XLVII
675
XLVIII
701
XLIX
719
LII
733
LIV
735
LV
747
LVI
769
LVII
781
LVIII
795
LX
811
LXI
825
LXII
841
LXIII
849
LXV
851
LXVI
863
LXVII
885
LXVIII
887
LXIX
907
LXX
909
LXXI
917
LXXII
935
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