Full Description
This book covers nutrients, active principles from phytotherapy/herbal products, and drug classes while identifying potential interactions. Didactic approaches to drug and non-drug interactions and cutting-edge reports are included in each chapter that promotes safer drug prescription and use. The physiopathological overview in this book provides background for chemistry, pharmacology, and mechanistic bases of drug and non-drug interaction as well as clinical cases and predictive screenings. This book is intended for undergraduate students studying medicine, nursing, nutrition, biomedicine, and pharmacy.
Contents
System Overview from Physiological and Pathological Standpoints.- Nutritional Elements I: Nutrients, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.- Nutritional Elements II: vitamins and minerals.- Herb-Drug Interactions.- Phytotherapy Products and Active Principles.- Drugs and Interaction Attributes.- Interaction From Structure Activity Relation Perspective.- Underlying Mechanism of Drug and Non-Drug Interactions.- Clinical and Hypothetical Cases of Drug and Non-Drug interactions.- Omics Approaches to Drug and Drug-Non-Drug Interactions.- Photosensitizers Interactions: From Basic Concepts to Clinical Applications.- New Investigative Prospects for Drug-Non-Drug Interactions.- Relevant of non-drug interaction in complementary and alternative medicine for complex diseases.- Remedies against plausible adverse interactions.
