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Brody’s Human Pharmacology, 7th Edition

By Lynn Wecker, PhD, Susan L. Ingram, PhD

Brody’s Human Pharmacology is a well-established and much-loved textbook that guides students of medicine, pharmacology and other health professions through pharmacology from both basic and clinical perspectives.

What can be a very difficult and complex topic is divided into easily digestible chapters, each of which is clearly structured from a therapeutic overview to mechanisms of action, relationships to clinical responses, pharmacokinetics, pharmacovigilance, new developments, and clinical relevance for all health professionals.

• Contains all the essential aspects of pharmacology, suitable for exam preparation

• Full-colour illustrations explain important processes and color-coded boxes enhance understanding

• Therapeutic overviews, clinical problems and trade names—everything you need to know

• Self-assessment questions and further reading to reinforce learning

• Current developments for each class of drugs and how information relates to students in the healthcare professions bring learning to life

• Updated content throughout

• pharmacodynamics chapter has been revised to include discussions of positive and negative allosteric modulators, as well as biased agonism

• pharmacogenetics chapter considers genetic variations and their relationship to drug responses

• Section on cancer drugs revised to reflect major advances

• new chapter on immunological and cell-based therapies

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