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Human Drug Metabolism: An Introduction
Human Drug Metabolism, An Introduction, Second Edition provides an accessible introduction to the subject and will be particularly invaluable to those who already have some understanding of the life sciences. Completely revised and updated throughout, the new edition focuses only on essential chemical detail and includes patient case histories to illustrate the clinical co
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Hardcover, 360 pages
Published
May 17th 2010
by Wiley
(first published November 4th 2005)
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This book's not perfect, but I couldn't possibly justify giving it anything but a five star rating. An impressive amount of work was done by the author, and an impressive amount of content is covered in the book, considering the page count. It's an introductory text, but it's a reasonably comprehensive one. The book is a bit technical for an introductory book, and you probably shouldn't try to read it unless you have at least some knowledge of basic biochemistry (you should definitely stay away
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Coleman was born in Forest Gate, a suburb in east London. Not long after he was born, his family moved a few miles east to Barking. At the time of his arrival, the area was just starting to recover from the damage it had received during World War II. He lived in a house on Bevan Avenue, named after Aneurin Bevan the architect of the National Health Service. He lived in that estate for 20 years. Th
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“It has been said that if a drug has no side effects, then it is unlikely to work. Drug therapy labours under the fundamental problem that usually every single cell in the body has to be treated just to exert a beneficial effect on a small group of cells, perhaps in one tissue. Although drug-targeting technology is improving rapidly, most of us who take an oral dose are still faced with the problem that the vast majority of our cells are being unnecessarily exposed to an agent that at best will have no effect, but at worst will exert many unwanted effects. Essentially, all drug treatment is really a compromise between positive and negative effects in the patient.”
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