Description

Pharmacology is the branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs. A drug can be broadly defined as any man-made, natural, or endogenous (from within body) molecule which exerts a biochemical or physiological effect on the cell, tissue, organ, or organism. In this book there is a thorough coverage of drug actions and reactions. This book covers the basic principles of pharmacological interactions on the human body in a way that is useful for both undergraduate and graduate students. The topics of this book include sites and mechanisms of drug actions and travel to sites of action, as well as termination and elimination. The book also includes drug response and time-response relationships, response variability, drug toxicity, drug abuse, drug dependence, and more. This book is comprehensive in nature and includes emerging topics and the latest research advances. Hope the book will prove a valuable reference for practitioners, specialists, consultants, and students. Scientists and students of this field, in general, will find this book valuable.