Author: Jasjit S. Bindra
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jasjit S. Bindra
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Published: 1995-04-01
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ISBN-13: 9780471891048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter Sneader
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2005-06-23
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780471899792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition provides expanded coverage of pre-20th century drugs, including emphasis on setting chapters in a wide historical and social context.
Author: Donald R. Kirsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1628727195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity— by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters offer a lively tour of how new drugs are actually found, the discovery strategies, the mistakes, and the rare successes. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the book with his own expertise and experiences from thirty-five years of drug hunting, whether searching for life-saving molecules in mudflats by Chesapeake Bay or as a chief science officer and research group leader at major pharmaceutical companies.
Author: Hany El-Shemy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2013-01-23
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9535109065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Natural products are a constant source of potentially active compounds for the treatment of various disorders. The Middle East and tropical regions are believed to have the richest supplies of natural products in the world. Plant derived secondary metabolites have been used by humans to treat acute infections, health disorders and chronic illness for tens of thousands of years. Only during the last 100 years have natural products been largely replaced by synthetic drugs. Estimates of 200 000 natural products in plant species have been revised upward as mass spectrometry techniques have developed. For developing countries the identification and use of endogenous medicinal plants as cures against cancers has become attractive. Books on drug discovery will play vital role in the new era of disease treatment using natural products.
Author: Miriam Boeri
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0520293479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The historical and social context -- The life course of baby boomers -- Relationships -- The war on drugs and mass incarceration -- The racial landscape of the drug war -- Women doing drugs -- Aging in drug use -- The culture of control expands -- Social reconstruction and social recovery -- Appendix : the older drug user study methodology
Author: Kishore R. Sakharkar
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2022-09-01
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1000795713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past decade, genome sequencing projects and the associated efforts have facilitated the discovery of several novel disease targets and the approval of several innovative drugs. To further exploit this data for human health and disease, there is a need to understand the genome data itself in detail, discover novel targets, understand their role in physiological pathways and associated diseases, with the aim to translate these discoveries to clinical and preventive medicine. It is equally important to understand the labors and limitations in integrating clinical phenotypes with genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic approaches. T