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The conceptual process of drug discovery is one that is often the result of an identified need in a defined disease area. This need represents a mandate from the marketing department of a phar­ maceutical company or a breakthrough at the research level that has agreed applicability in response to a valid therapeutic demand. Although the intelligent design and development of new thera­ peutic entities, as evidenced by Sir James Black's H -receptor an­ 2 tagonist cimetidine (Tagamet), is intellectually satisfying, many novel drugs arise from serendipity, from the chance observation of the research scientist or the clinician, that a compound has unex­ pected actions of use for the treatment of human disease states. Drugs that have been identified by this route include the antipsy­ chotic chlorpromazine and the putative anxiolytic buspirone. The events surrounding the process of drug discovery and de­ velopment are the theme of the present volume, which attempts to present, in a logical and lucid manner, the complexity of a process that is often naively assumed to represent nothing more than the identification of a new compound and its rapid introduction into humans, free of such complications as efficacy, selectivity, safety, bioavailability, toxicity, and need.

ISBN-13

9780896031081

ISBN-10

089603108X

Weight

1.82 Pounds

Dimensions

6.14 x 1.00 x 9.21 In

List Price

$169.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

xviii, 448 pages

Publisher

Humana

Published On

1987-08-27



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