Pharmacology, Fifth Edition

Pharmacology′s successful approach emphasizes the mechanisms by which drugs act and relates these to the overall pharmacological effects and clinical uses. In doing so it sets out a clear route from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions, to the therapeutic uses of the most important groups of drugs. This edition has been fully updated, incorporating significant new information published in the last few years. New agents are fully discussed as well as extensions of basic knowledge. One new chapter in the final section on drug discovery looks at the rapidly changing processes involved which are driven by advances in molecular biology, and contains a brief account of the regulatory controls involved.