Basic Knowledge of Pharmacology
Description
This book is an adaptation for an international audience of the German textbook "Basiswissen Pharmakologie" (2018); ISBN: 978-3-662-56303-8.
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Prof. Dr. Roland Seifert is Full Professor and Institute Director at Medical School Hannover (MHH), Germany. He has been teaching pharmacology for medical students for more than 30 years and since 2010 has regularly received the Best Teacher Award from the medical students, MHH.
Roland Seifert is the current Editor-in-chief of the prestigious Springer journal Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology .
Content
General Principles: Introduction and Pharmacodynamics.- Pharmacokinetics.- Drug Allergy.- Treatment of Drug Intoxications.- Pharmacology of Integrative Systems: Cholinergic and Adrenergic System.- Serotonergic System.- Histaminergic System.- Dopaminergic System.- NO-cGMP System.- Pain Pharmacology.- Immunopharmacology.- Pharmacology of the Kidney.- Pharmacotherapy: Drugs for Treatment of Gastrointestinal Diseases.- Drugs for Treatment of Respiratory Tract Diseases.- Drugs for Treatment of Hypertension.- Drugs for Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure and Coronary Heart Disease.- Drug-Induced Arrhythmias and Drugs for the Treatment of Arrhythmias.- Drugs for Treatment of Thromboembolic Diseases.- Drugs for Treatment of Diabetes mellitus.- Drugs for Treatment of Osteoporosis.- Drugs for Treatment of Thyroid Gland Diseases.- Drugs for Treatment of Dyslipidemias.- Drugs for Treatment ofGout.- Sex Hormones: Hormonal Contraception and Hormonal Replacement Therapy.- Neuron Inhibitors with Pleiotropic Effects and Allosteric GABA A Receptor Modulators.- Local Anesthetics.- Inhalation and Injection Narcotics.- Drugs for Treatment of Depression and Bipolar Disorder.- Drugs for Treatment of Schizophrenia.- Drugs for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.- Drugs for Treatment of Glaucoma and Age-Related Macular Degeneration.- Drugs for Treatment of Malignant Tumor Diseases.- Drugs for Treatment of Bacterial Infections.- Drugs for Treatment of Viral Infections.- Drugs for Treatment of Fungal Infections.- Integrative Case Studies.- The "100 List" of Drugs.