Textbook of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Textbook of Pharmacology & Therapeutics

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

PART I GENERAL PRINCIPLES

1. Introduction to therapeutics
2. Mechanism of drug action (Pharmacodynamics)
3. Pharmacokinetics
4. Drug absorption and routes of administration
5. Drug metabolism
6. Renal excretion of drugs
7. Effects of disease on drug disposition
8. Therapeutic drug monitoring
9. Drugs in pregnancy
10. Drugs in infants and children
11. Drugs in the elderly
12. Adverse drug reaction
13. Drug interaction
14. Pharmacogenetics
15. Introduction of new drugs and clinical trials
16. Cell based and recombinant DNA therapies
17. Alternative medicines : herbals and nutraceuticals

PART II THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

1. Hipnotics
2. Schizophrenia and behavioural emergencies
3. Mood disorders
4. Mood disorders and degenerative CNS disease
5. Anti epileptics
6. Migraine
7. Anaesthetics and muscles relaxants
8. Analgesics and the control of pain

PART III THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

1. Anti inflammatory drugs and the treatment of arthritis

PART IV THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

1. Prevention of atheroma :lowering plasma cholesterol and other approaches
2. Hypertension
3. Ischaemic heart disease
4. Anticoagulants and antiplatelet drugs
5. Heart failure
6. Cardiac dysrhythmias

PART V THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

1. Therapy of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory disorders

PART VI THE ALIMENTARY SYSTEM

1. Alimentary system and liver
2. Vitamins and trace elements

PART VII FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES

1. Nephrological and related aspects

PART VIII THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

1. Diabetes mellitus
2. Thyroid
3. Calcium metabolism
4. Adreanl hormones
5. Reproductive endocrinology
6. The pituitary hormones and related drugs

PART IX SELECTIVE TOXICITY

1. Antibacterial drugs
2. Mycobacterial infections
3. Fungal and non HIV viral infections
4. HIV and AIDS
5. Malaria and other parasitic infections
6. Cancer chemotherapy

PART X HAEMATOLOGY

1. Anaemia and other haematological disorders

PART XI IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY

1. Clinical imunopharmacology

PART XII THE SKIN

1. Drugs and the skin

PART XIII THE EYE

1. Drugs and the eye

PART XIV CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

1. Drugs and alcohol abuse
2. Drugs overdose and poisoning

Index

ABOUT BOOK
Name book	Textbook of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (5th edition)
Author	James M Ritter, Lionel D Lewis, Timothy GK Mant and Albert Ferro
Type	pdf
Size	4.3 MB
Pages	476
Page Type	Colored
Quality	Good

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