- ISBN: 9780470260968 | 0470260963
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/4/2008
This book is appropriate for a broad readership, starting with curious and thoughtful college undergraduates and reaching beyond to professors and researchers in the life sciences, chemistry, and medicine. This book provides, for the first time ever, a completely integrated look at chemistry, biology, drug discovery, and medicine. Molecules and Medicine delves into the discovery, application, and mode of action of more than one hundred of the most significant molecules now in use in modern medicine. Beautifully illustrated with full color throughout, molecule structures and shapes are shown for all of these medicines. The opening sections of the book provide a unique, clear, and concise introduction which enables the reader to understand chemical formulas. For each medicine, coverage includes the condition it treats, the summary of its development in industry, the year put into practice, the biological target for the medicine, the human proteins related to the disease, the metabolism or action of the condition treated, and interacting side effects and related drugs. Interspersed within the text, where appropriate, can be found background sections, such as a brief survey of immunology, to help guide the readers understanding.
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