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41. Enhancement in Drug Delivery

    Edited by Elka Touitou, Brian W. Barry

    Providing a significant cross-fertilization of ideas across several disciplines, Enhancement in Drug Delivery offers a unique comprehensive review of both theoretical and practical aspects of enhancement agents and techniques used for problematic administration routes. It presents an integrated...

    Published November 26th 2006 by CRC Press
42. Chemistry and Pharmacology of Anticancer Drugs

    By David E. Thurston, David E. Thurston

    While drug therapies developed in the last 50 years have markedly improved the management of some types of cancers, treatment outcomes, and drug side-effects for the most common types remain unacceptable.  However, recent technological advances are leading to improved therapies based on targeting...

    Published November 21st 2006 by CRC Press
43. Treatments from Toxins

    The Therapeutic Potential of Clostridial Neurotoxins

    Edited by Keith Alan Foster, Peter Hambleton, Clifford C. Shone

    As little as two decades ago, deliberately injecting botulinum toxin into patients would have seemed foolhardy at best and criminal at worst. The increased clinical use of botulinum toxins has expanded the body of knowledge available on the structure and function of these proteins. This knowledge...

    Published November 1st 2006 by CRC Press
44. Caffeine and Activation Theory

    Effects on Health and Behavior

    Edited by Barry D. Smith, Uma Gupta, B.S. Gupta

    The virtually universal popularity of caffeine, together with concerns about its potential pathogenic effects, have made it one of the most extensively studied drugs in history. However, despite the massive scientific literature on this important substance, most reviews have either focused on...

    Published October 24th 2006 by CRC Press
45. Nucleotides and Regulation of Bone Cell Function

    Edited by Geoffrey Burnstock, Timothy R. Arnett

    ATP's powerful impact on the heart and blood vessels was first described in 1929, but it was not until the 1970s that ATP was proposed as the 'purinergic' neurotransmitter in autonomic nerves. The door to this area of research was thrown open when receptors for ATP and its ectoenzymatic breakdown...

    Published September 26th 2006 by CRC Press
46. Handbook of Cell-Penetrating Peptides, Second Edition

    Edited by Ulo Langel

    Series: Pharmacology and Toxicology: Basic and Clinical Aspects

    Since the first Handbook of Cell-Penetrating Peptides was prepared in 2001, the wealth of new information on the use of these peptides as transport systems has in fact served to confound the field. The constant internal change in the field of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) is due to recent...

    Published August 14th 2006 by CRC Press
47. Medication Treatments for Nicotine Dependence

    Edited by Tony P. George

    Despite the prevalence of both pharmaceutical and behavioral approaches to encourage cessation, over a billion people still indulge in tobacco. Even in the U.S., where tobacco use is considered a clearly treatable and socially regrettable condition, a significant percentage of individuals remain...

    Published July 27th 2006 by CRC Press
48. Adenosine Receptors

    Therapeutic Aspects for Inflammatory and Immune Diseases

    Edited by Gyorgy Hasko, Bruce N. Cronstein, Csaba Szabo

    After a century of research, several lines of evidence now indicate that the ability of adenosine to directly control inflammatory cells has a major impact on the functions of the inflammatory and immune systems. Consequently, many promising therapeutic approaches are beginning to emerge that focus...

    Published July 19th 2006 by CRC Press
49. Nutrient-Drug Interactions

    Edited by Kelly Anne Meckling

    Series: Nutrition and Disease Prevention

    Current research has given us a more complete understanding of how the chemicals in foods and herbs interact with natural and synthetic drugs. In some cases a single food or supplement can profoundly increase or decrease the toxicity and/or efficacy of a single drug. Although it is standard...

    Published June 22nd 2006 by CRC Press
50. Animal Models of Cognitive Impairment

    Edited by Edward D. Levin, Jerry J. Buccafusco

    Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

    The costs associated with a drug’s clinical trials are so significant that it has become necessary to validate both its safety and efficacy in animal models prior to the continued study of the drug in humans. Featuring contributions from distinguished researchers in the field of cognitive therapy...

    Published June 21st 2006 by CRC Press