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Principles of Pharmacology 2eThe Pathophysiologic Basis of Drug TherapyDavid E. Golan MD, PhD Armen H. Tashjian Jr., MDEhrin J. Armstrong MD April W. Armstrong MDApril 2006/ 985 pp./ 400 illus./ 978-0-7817-8355-2Instructor & StudentResources:• Fully searchable onlinetext and faculty imagebank available on thePointFeatures:• Mechanism-based approach gives students an understandingof the concepts they will need to be effective physicians.• Chapters begin with a clinical case specific to a target system,followed by the relevant biochemistry, physiology, andpathophysiology of the system.• Chapters emphasize mechanistic interactions between a drugclass and its specific molecular and cellular targets within theorgan system.• Over 400 two-color figures illustrate the molecular, cellular,biochemical, physiologic, and pathophysiologic processesunderlying disease and depict the targets of drug therapy.• Each chapter includes a drug summary table presentingmechanism, clinical applications, adverse effects,contraindications, and therapeutic considerations, allowing foreasy and rapid review.• Consistently formatted and enhanced drug summary tables• Chemotherapy section reorganized, including new chapter onneoplastic signal transduction• New chapter on how drugs produce adverse effects and thescientific principles behind drug toxicity• New section, Fundamentals of Drug Discovery and Regulation,explains the life cycle of drug development