Category Archives: Pharmacology

Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The two books Muscle Pain: Understanding the Mechanisms and Muscle Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment will help the practitioner to understand why the patients feel pain, what to do about it and why the treatment works. In contrast to proceedings of … Continue reading →

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Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Understanding the phenomenon of long-lasting vulnerability to addiction is essential to developing successful treatments. Written by aninternational team ofauthorities in their respective fields, Advances in the Neuroscience of Addiction provides an excellent overview of the available and emerging approaches used … Continue reading →

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Novel Therapeutic Targets for Antiarrhythmic Drugs

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Profiles potential treatment approaches for cardiac arrhythmias Cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular origin are responsible for the deaths of nearly half a million Americans each year while atrial fibrillation accounts for about 2.3 million cases per year, a rate that is … Continue reading →

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BACE: Lead Target for Orchestrated Therapy of Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

BACE inhibitors and their use in the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease BACE (?-site of APP cleaving enzyme) is a critical component in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and the development of BACE inhibitors shows great potential as a therapy for the disease. … Continue reading →

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EMS Pocket Drug Guide

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The drug guide that belongs in the pocket of every front-line EMS provider This is the first EMS pocket drug guide that contains the detailed information typically found only in much larger reference books. EMS Pocket Drug Guide is a … Continue reading →

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Drugs of Abuse: Body Fluid Testing (Forensic Science and Medicine)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

A comprehensive review of the science of drug testing in all its aspects, placing emphasis on technologies that use body fluids other than urine for determining the presence of drugs of abuse. The authors discuss the various body fluid specimens … Continue reading →

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Adverse Drug Interactions: A Handbook for Prescribers (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The prescription of two or more drugs for simultaneous use by a patients always raises the possibility that one of those drugs will affect the intensity and duration of effect of the other(s), and can introduce the possibility of serious … Continue reading →

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Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Recognition (Subcellular Biochemistry)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Endotoxins are potentially toxic compounds produced by Gram-negative bacteria including some pathogens. Unlike exotoxins, which are secreted in soluble form by live bacteria, endotoxins are comprised of structural components of bacteria. Endotoxins can cause a whole-body inflammatory state, sepsis, leading … Continue reading →

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Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

Peroxides are supposed to be bad for you. Free radicals and all that. But now we hear that hydrogen peroxide is good for us. Hydrogen peroxide will put extra oxygen in your blood. There’s no doubt about that. Hydrogen peroxide … Continue reading →

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Behavioral Neurobiology of Anxiety and Its Treatment (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences)

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

The book aims to cover a broad range of topics related to anxiety disorders, including symptomatology, etiology, epidemiology, diagnostic features, comorbidity, clinical neuroscience, genetics, neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, neurochemistry, animal models, translational science, functional neuroimaging, and preclinical and clinical psychopharmacology. The book … Continue reading →

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