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Molecules and Medicine
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 660
EAN: 9780470260968
ISBN: 0470260963
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 254
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Review:
Molecules and Medicine provides, for the first time ever, a completely integrated look at chemistry, biology, drug discovery, and medicine. Beautifully illustrated and presented in full colour, this book delves into the discovery, application, and mode of action of more than one hundred of the most significant molecules now used in modern medicine.
With focus on the most important and commonly used medicines such as anti-clotting agents, antibiotics, Viagra and anti-malarial and antidepressant drugs, coverage includes the condition it treats, the summary of its industrial development, the year put into practice, the biological target for the medicine, the human proteins related to the disease, the metabolism or action of the condition treated, and interacting side effects and related drugs. Diagrams revealing the shape and structure of molecular make-up for each medicine accompany the text. Interspersed where appropriate, can be found background sections such as a brief survey of immunology, to help guide the readers understanding.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Highly useful!
The present book, written in a precise and concise manner, illustrates efficiently the development of medicinal chemistry providing the reader an insight of this increasingly imperative field.
Rating: - highly informative
With the level of interest in pharmaceuticals never being higher, this timely contribution is a home run. This is a must for organic and medicinal chemists and for anyone who wants obtain accurate information on important drugs.
Rating: - Outstanding!!!
I strongly recommend this book, it is well organized, outstandingly illustrated, and a great guide to students, undergraduate and graduate, of enticing and valuable compounds.
Rating: - Awesome!
This is really a very interesting book that touches on some important aspects of drugs while covering the real breakthroughs in this field. The individual summaries on each of the drugs are very helpful, though brief and thus incomplete. However, you really do need a background in organic chemistry and biology to get the most out of it-- the book is oddly accessible and out of read at the same time.
Rating:  - Molecules and Medicine
This book did not meet my expectations. I was hoping to find interesting stories about the development of these medicines and why they were developed for their diseases, but did not find this in this book.
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