Medicinal chemistry-- fusion of traditional and western medicine / authored by Robert E. Smith, adjunct assistant professor, Park University and Consultant, science advisor, United States food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Robert E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical chemistry.

Traditional medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Bentham Science Publishers Limited, [2015]

Summary:

Medicinal Chemistry - Fusion of Traditional and Western Medicine is a textbook intended for students taking courses in the various fields of medicinal chemistry pharmacy medical and dental programs. Moreover people working in the pharmaceutical industry and doctors preparing for Medical Board Exams will also find it useful. Since new drugs are being developed by multi-disciplinary teams; this E-Book describes new paradigms that are emerging in modern biology biochemistry and medicine. It is therefore a fusion of traditional and western medicine and between systems thinking and reductionist thinking. The 3rd edition attempts to explain the predictive preventive personalized and participatory (P4) paradigm of medicinal chemistry. This edition features new chapters focusing on personalized medicinal chemistry and the endocrine system (with a discussion of bioidentical hormone therapy). Other chapters cover the disease mechanism and associated pharmacology of drugs for several diseases including cancer metabolic syndrome diabetes heart disease stroke osteoporosis neurodegenerative diseases the immune system and much more. The new edition also includes an overview of emergent medical problems and possible solutions (such as the flu ebola virus global climate change a shortage of medicines genetic engineering and stem cell therapy). Drugs that have been approved by the FDA since the 1st edition was written are also included. The book concludes with an explanation of systems thinking in medicinal chemistry an important yet rarely explored topic in other medicinal chemistry text books.

Contents:

Intro

FOREWORD

PREFACE

DEDICATION

CHAPTER 1 Personalized Medicinal Chemistry

CHAPTER 2 Biology of Inflammation

CHAPTER 3 Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke

CHAPTER 4 Biology of Cancer: Genetics, Biomarkers and Clinical Approaches

CHAPTER 5 Medicinal Chemistry and the Endocrine System

CHAPTER 6 Reproductive Medicine, Osteoporosis

CHAPTER 7 The Nervous System

CHAPTER 8 The Immune System and Immune Network

CHAPTER 9 Infectious Diseases

CHAPTER 10 Vaccines

CHAPTER 11 Preventing Diseases by Proper Nutrition

CHAPTER 12 New Problems and Solutions

CHAPTER 13 Communication and Signaling in Medicinal Chemistry

CHAPTER 14 Systems Thinking in Medicinal Chemistry

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 13, 2017).

ISBN:

9781681080789

1681080788