The twelfth edition of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology continues the important changes inaugurated in the eleventh edition, with
extensive use of full-color illustrations and expanded coverage of
transporters, pharmacogenomics, and new drugs. Case studies
have been added to several chapters s and answers to questions
posed in the case studies now appear at the end of each chapter.
As in prior editions, the book is designed to provide a comprehensive,
authoritative, and readable pharmacology textbook for
students in the health sciences. Frequent revision is necessary to
keep pace with the rapid changes in pharmacology and therapeutics;
the 2–3 year revision cycle of the printed text is among the
shortest in the field and the availability of an online version provides
even greater currency. In addition to the full-color illustrations,
other new features have been introduced. The Case Study
Answer section at the end of chapters will make the learning process
even more interesting and efficient.The book also offers
special features that make it a useful reference for house officers
and practicing clinicians.
Information is organized according to the sequence used in
many pharmacology courses and in integrated curricula: basic
principles; autonomic drugs; cardiovascular-renal drugs; drugs with
important actions on smooth muscle; central nervous system
drugs; drugs used to treat inflammation, gout, and diseases of the
blood; endocrine drugs; chemotherapeutic drugs; toxicology; and
special topics. This sequence builds new information on a foundation
of information already assimilated. For example, early presentation
of autonomic nervous system pharmacology allows students
to integrate the physiology and neuroscience they have learned
elsewhere with the pharmacology they are learning and prepares
them to understand the autonomic effects of other drugs This is
especially important for the cardiovascular and central nervous
system drug groups. However, chapters can be used equally well in
courses and curricula that present these topics in a different
sequence.
Within each chapter, emphasis is placed on discussion of drug
groups and prototypes rather than offering repetitive detail about
individual drugs. Selection of the subject matter and the order of
its presentation are based on the accumulated experience of teaching
this material to thousands of medical, pharmacy, dental,
podiatry, nursing, and other health science students.
Major features that make this book particularly useful in integrated
curricula include sections that specifically address the clinical
choice and use of drugs in patients and the monitoring of their
effects—in other words, clinical pharmacology is an integral part of
this text. Lists of the commercial preparations available, including
trade and generic names and dosage formulations, are provided at
the end of each chapter for easy reference by the house officer or
practitioner writing a chart order or prescription.
Significant revisions in this edition
include:
• In addition to the Case Studies used to open many chapters,
Case Study Answers at the end of these chapters provide an
introduction to the clinical applications of the drugs discussed.
• A Drug Summary Table is placed at the conclusion of most
chapters; these provide a concise recapitulation of the most
important drugs.
• Many new illustrations in full color provide significantly more
information about drug mechanisms and effects and help to
clarify important concepts.
• Major revisions of the chapters on sympathetically, sympathetically,
anti psychotic, antidepressant, anti diabetic, anti inflammatory,
and antiviral drugs, propagandist, nitric
oxide, hypothalamicand pituitary hormones, and psychopharmacology.
• Continued expansion of the coverage of general concepts relating
to newly discovered receptors, receptor mechanisms, and
drug transporters.
• Descriptions of important new drugs released through August
2011.
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Book Name
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Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 12th
Edition Bertram Katzung Susan Masters Anthony Trevor
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Author
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Bertrem katzung Susan B master and Anthony J Travor
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Language
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English
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Format
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PDF
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Size
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18.1 MB
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Pages
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1245
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