Includes bibliographical references and index

Section 1: Fundamental principles of pharmacology : -- 1. Drug-receptor interactions / David E. Golan -- 2. Pharmacodynamics / David E. Golan -- 3. Pharmacokinetics / David E. Golan -- 4. Drug metabolism / F. Peter Guengerich -- 5. Drug transporters / Keith A. Hoffmaster -- 6. Drug toxicity / David E. Golan -- 7. Pharmacogenomics / Kelan Tantisira -- Section 2: Principles of neuropharmacology : -- Section IIA: Fundamental principles of neuropharmacology : -- 8. Principles of cellular excitability and electrochemical transmission / Gary R. Strichartz -- 9. Principles of nervous system physiology and pharmacology / Daniel H. Lowenstein -- Section IIB: Principles of autonomic and peripheral nervous system pharmacology : -- 10. Cholinergic pharmacology / Gary R. Strichartz -- 11. Adrenergic pharmacology / David E. Golan -- 12. Local anesthetic pharmacology / Gary R. Strichartz -- Section IIC: Principles of central nervous system pharmacology : -- 13. Pharmacology of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission / Eng H. Lo -- 14. Pharmacology of dopaminergic neurotransmission / Victor W. Sung -- 15. Pharmacology of serotonergic and central adrenergic neurotransmission / Roy H. Perlis -- 16. Pharmacology of abnormal electrical neurotransmission in the central nervous system / Daniel H. Lowenstein -- 17. General anesthetic pharmacology / Keith W. Miller -- 18. Pharmacology of analgesia / Clifford J. Woolf -- 19. Pharmacology of drugs of abuse / Sachin Patel -- Section III: Principles of cardiovascular pharmacology : -- 20. Pharmacology of cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism / David E. Cohen -- 21. Pharmacology of volume regulation / Seth L. Alper -- 22. Pharmacology of vascular tone / Joseph Loscalzo -- 23. Pharmacology of hemostasis and thrombosis / David E. Golan -- 24. Pharmacology of cardiac rhythm / David E. Clapham -- 25. Pharmacology of cardiac contractility / Ehrin J. Armstrong -- 26. Integrative cardiovascular pharmacology: hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and heart failure / Ehrin J. Armstrong -- Section IV: Principles of endocrine pharmacology : -- 27. Pharmacology of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland / Ursula B. Kaiser -- 28. Pharmacology of the thyroid gland / William W. Chin -- 29. Pharmacology of the adrenal cortex / Gail K. Adler -- 30. Pharmacology of reproduction / Robert L. Barbieri -- 31. Pharmacology of the endocrine pancreas and glucose homeostasis / Steven E. Shoelson -- 32. Pharmacology of bone mineral homeostasis / Ehrin J. Armstrong -- Section V: Principles of chemotherapy : -- 33. Principles of antimicrobial and antineoplastic pharmacology / David E. Golan -- 34. Pharmacology of bacterial infections: DNA replication, transcription, and translation / Donald M. Coen -- 35. Pharmacology of bacterial and mycobacterial infections: cell wall synthesis / Sarah P. Hammond -- 36. Pharmacology of fungal infections / April W. Armstrong -- 37. Pharmacology of parasitic infections / Edward T. Ryan -- 38. Pharmacology of viral infections / Donald M. Coen -- 39. Pharmacology of cancer: genome synthesis, stability, and maintenance / David A. Frank -- 40. Pharmacology of cancer: signal transduction / David A. Frank -- 41. Principles of combination chemotherapy / David E. Golan -- Section VI: Principles of inflammation and immune pharmacology : -- 42. Principles of inflammation and the immune system / April W. Armstrong -- 43. Pharmacology of eicosanoids / Charles N. Serhan -- 44. Histamine pharmacology / April W. Armstrong -- 45. Pharmacology of hematopoiesis and immunomodulation / George D. Demetri -- 46. Pharmacology of immunosuppression / April W. Armstrong -- 47. Integrative inflammation pharmacology: peptic ulcer disease / Helen M. Shields -- 48. Integrative inflammation pharmacology: asthma / Stephen Lazarus -- 49. Integrative inflammation pharmacology: gout / Lloyd B. Klickstein -- Section VII: Environmental toxicology : -- 50. Environmental toxicology / Joshua M. Galanter -- Section VIII: Fundamentals of drug development and regulation -- 51. Drug discovery and preclinical development / Maarten Postema -- 52. Clinical drug evaluation and regulatory approval / Alexander E. Kuta -- 53. Systematic detection of adverse drug events / Jerry Avorn -- Section IX: Frontiers in pharmacology : -- 54. Protein therapeutics / David E. Golan -- 55. Drug delivery modalities / Robert Langer