Drug Discovery and Development, Drug Discovery

Drug Discovery and Development, Drug Discovery




Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: 2006-06-16
Sales Rank: 107734
ISBN / ASIN: 0471398489
EAN: 9780471398486
Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:

This two volume set provides a comprehensive account of the entire sequence of operations involved in discovering a drug through the actual delivery of the drug to clinicians and medical practitioners.

Includes case studies of the discovery of erythromycin analogs (antibiotics), Tagamet, and Ultiva (remifentanil)
Discusses the discovery of agents for the treatment and management of bacterial infections, Parkinson's disease, psoriasis, ulcers and stomach pain, atopic dermatitis, asthma, and cancer
Contains chapters on combinatorial chemistry, molecular biology-based drug discovery, genomics, and chemogenomics
The first volume of this set thoroughly describes conceptualizing a drug, creating a library of candidates for testing, screening those candidates for in vitro and in vivo activity, conducting and analyzing the results of clinical trials, and revising the drug as necessary.


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