How Drugs Work - 4th Edition

Name: How Drugs Work - 4th Edition
Brand: CRC Press

CRC Press

This book provides complex information into what is essential for the prescriber, without sacrificing scientific accuracy. It provides readers with an understanding of how drugs work sufficient to make their prescribing and medication reviewing safer and more effective. > This book provides complex information into what is essential for the prescriber, without sacrificing scientific accuracy. It provides readers with an understanding of how drugs work sufficient to make their prescribing and medication reviewing safer and more effective. > 1. Getting a drug into the body: Absorption 2. Getting a drug to its site of action: Distribution 3. Inactivating drugs: Phase 1 drug metabolism 4. Phase 2 drug metabolism and methods of excretion 5. The concept of a drug's half-life (\u00A31/2): An estimate of the rate of elimination of different drugs 6. Receptor function and intercellular signalling 7. The central role of receptors in drug action 8. Drugs that block enzymes: Understanding '