Full Description
Are your exams coming up? Are you drowning in textbooks and lecture notes and wondering where to begin? Take the "FASTtrack" route to successful study for your examinations. "FASTtrack" provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams. "FASTtrack: Pharmacology" provides a brief account of drug action, as either a study or revision aid. In doing this, the authors have generally taken a therapeutic area and considered the major classes of drugs, their actions and, to a limited degree, their uses. There are many excellent brief guides to pharmacology and so their second aim is to present a study guide which deals with molecular pharmacology at a more advanced level, so that the book is also useful for advanced pharmacology studied in the later years of pharmacy and science degrees. This study guide should therefore be useful at each level of undergraduate study.New in this edition: each chapter completely updated to take account of recent changes, and include future drugs; multiple choice tests; new chapters on immunopharmacology, oral contraceptives and local anaesthetics; and, greater use of summary tables.
Contents
1. Pharmacodynamics 2. Receptors 3. G-proteins and Their Downstream Signaling Cascades 4. Ion Channels and Transporters 5. Quantitive Pharmacology 6. Autonomic Pharmacology 7. Local Mediators 8. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism 9. Gastric Pharmacology 10. Lower Gastrointestinal Pharmacology 11. Antiemetics 12. Antiarrhythmics 13. Cardiovascular Drugs 14. Renal and Urinary Pharmacology 15. Antithrombotic Agents 16. Antiobesity Drugs 17. Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 18. Allergy 19. Anxiolytics and Hypnotics 20. Antidepressants 21. Antiepileptic Drugs 22. Antipsychotic Drugs 23. Parkinson's Disease 24. Analgesics 25. Drugs of Abuse 26. General Anaesthetics 27. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs 28. Thyroid Disorders 29. Diabetes Mellitus 30. Antibacterial Agents 31. Non-bacterial Infections 32. Anticancer Drugs 33. Steroids 34. Oral Contraceptives 35. Immunopharmacology 36. Biopharmaceuticals 37. Variation in Clinical Efficacy
