Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry: How Drugs Act and Why (PB)

· Basic Considerations of Drug Activity. · Mechanisms of Drug Action. · Drug Metabolism and Inactivation. · Anticancer Drugs and Their Mechanism of Action. · Analgetics and Non steroidal Anti-inflammatory Agents. · Antimicrobial Drugs I. Antimicrobial Drugs II. · Drugs Affecting Cholinergic Mechanisms. · Drugs Affecting Adrenergic Mechanisms. · Drugs and the Cardiovascular Diseases. · Drugs and the Cardiovascular Diseases II. · Psychoactive Drugs--Chemotherapy of the Mind. · Histamine Antagonists and Local Anesthetics. · Steroids. · New Developments and New Problems.