Pharmazie

Aquaporins

The aquaporin field has matured at an exceptionally fast pace and we are at the verge to develop serious strategies to therapeutically modulate aquaporin function directly or via regulatory networ...

Women's Cancers: Pathways to Healing

Giuseppe Del Priore / J. Richard Smith

<P>The first goal of this book is to provide the patient with accurate information. The second goal is to show how a combination of "orthodox medicine" and complementary therapies ca...

cGMP: Generators, Effectors and Therapeutic Implications

<P>After the discovery of endogenous NO formation in the late '80s and the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, many researchers and physicians again became interested in the NO/s...

Medical Applications of Colloids

The important role of ?nely dispersed matter and surfaces in medicine is not always fully understood and appreciated. Speci?cally, ?ne particles (solid or liquid) in the size range of several nano...

Antiviral Strategies

<P>A crucial issue for antiviral therapy is the fact that all antiviral substances rapidly select for resistance; thus, monitoring and overcoming resistance has become a most important clini...

Dendritic Cells

The understanding of the role of dendritic cells (DCs) in immune responses has come a long way since Steinmann and colleagues described these cells in 1972. - tensive research during the interveni...

Polyklonale Antikörper

Elvira Schecklies

This book summarizes for the first time the fundamentals of the production of polyclonal antibodies. The individual steps of antigen preparation, immunization and antiserum production are describe...

Handbook of Stability Testing in Pharmaceutical Development

Curriculum Klinische Pharmazie

Dorothee Dartsch

The Cannabinoid Receptors

<P>As research has progressed, the cannabinoid CB <SUB>1 </SUB>and CB <SUB>2 </SUB>receptors have expanded significantly in importance within the neuroscience mainstr...

Culture and Health

Michael Winkelman

Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges o...

Chemische Nomenklatur

Karl-Heinz Hellwich

Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery

<p>&#xa0;The reader will be introduced to various aspects of the fundamentals of nanotechnology based drug delivery systems and the application of these systems for the delivery of small...

Heilpflanzenkunde für die Veterinärpraxis

Moisei Isaakovich Rabinovich / Reinhard Saller / Rosa Gachnian-Mirtscheva / Wolfgang Widmaier / Marijke Frater-Schröder / Jürgen Reichling

<P>Das Buch stellt über 100 Heilpflanzen in monographischer Form vor. Auf der Basis aktueller pharmakologischer Erkenntnisse erhalten Leser einen schnellen Überblick über Indikationsgebie...

Fachlexikon Toxikologie

<P>Das Nachschlagewerk bietet prägnante Informationen zu allen wichtigen toxikologischen Begriffen – von A wie Abbaubarkeit bis Z wie Zytostatika. Ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel für Wissensch...

Therapeutics of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders

<ul> <li>Provides a comprehensive update on therapies for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders</li> <li>Describes the basic mechanisms of neurodegeneration, p...

Putting Patients First

The second edition of <i>Putting Patients First</i> showcases what Planetree facilities and the Planetree organization have learned about the commitments, conditions, practices, and po...

Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Cough

The last decade or so has seen remarkable advances in our knowledge of cough. This applies especially to its basic mechanisms: the types of airway sensors, the phar- cological receptors on their m...

Pharming

Margret Engelhard / Kristin Hagen / R. B. Jørgensen / Eckard Rehbinder / Angelika Schnieke / Felix Thiele / Rafael Pardo Avellaneda

<P>A recently established technique termed pharming uses genetically modified plants and animals for the production of biopharmaceuticals. The present interdisciplinary study comprises an ex...

Treatment of Psoriasis

<P>This volume provides an in-depth overview of the current state of psoriasis and its management. It reviews the clinical manifestations of psoriasis as well as psoriatic arthritis and emph...