Basic Concepts in Pharmacology. A Student's Survival Guide

OVERVIEW

This resource offers a proven way for learning the most difficult-to-understand concepts in pharmacology and provides a study system that sets priorities, minimizes memorization, and reduces stress.

• Includes study techniques not found in any competing book
• Clearly explains each fundamental principal of drug actions
• Organizes and condenses must-know drug information
• Numerous summary boxes, illustrations, and tables
• Newly updated information on poisoning/toxicology and coverage of new classes of drugs such as fusion inhibitors for HIV, antibiotic and antifungal drugs, and new drugs for cancer, immune suppression, and more

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Janet Stringer, MD - Baylor College of Medicine, Jewish Institute for Medical Research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Basic Concepts in Pharmacology
1. Where to Start

Part 1 General Principles
2. Receptor Theory
3. Absorption, Distribution and Clearance
4. Pharmacokinetics
5. Drug Metabolism and Renal Elimination

Part II Autonomics
6. Review of the Autonomic Nervous System
7. Cholinergic Agonists
8. Cholinergic Antagonists
9. Adrenergic Agonists
10. Adrenergic Antagonists

Part III Drugs That Affect the Cardiovascular System
11. Drugs that Improve Cardiac Contractility
12. Antihypertensive Drugs
13. Drugs that Treat Heart Failure
14. Antiarrrhytmic Drugs
15. Drugs that Affect Blood
16. Lipid-Lowering Drugs

Part IV Drugs Acting on the Central Nervous System
17. Anxiolytic and Hynotic Drugs
18. Antidepressants and Lithium
19. Antipsychoyics or Neuroleptics
20. Drugs Used in Parkinson?s Disease
21. Antiepileptic Drugs
22 Narcotics
23. General Anesthetics
24. Local Anesthetics
25. Introduction to chemotherapy
26. Inhibitors of Cell Wall Synthesis
27. Proteins Synthesis Inhibitors
28. Folate Anatgonists
29. Quinolones and Urinary Tract Antiseptics
30. Drugs Used in Tuberculosis and Leprosy
31. Antifungal Drugs
32. Anthelmintic Drugs
33. Antiviral Drugs
34. Antiprotozoal Drugs
35. Anticancer Drugs

Part VI Drugs that Affect the Endocrine System
36. Andrenocortical Hormones
37. Sex Steroids
38. Thyroid and Antithyroid Drugs
39. Insulin, Glucagon and Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs

Part VII Miscellaneous Drugs
40. Histamine and Antihistamines
41. Respiratory Drugs
42. Drugs that Affect the GI Tract
43. Nonnarcotic Analgesics and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
44. Immunosuppressives
45. Drugs Used in Osteoporosis
46. Toxicology and poisoning