Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 34 (Hardcover)

Hardbound. In this volume, there are five reviews of topical subjects. The availability of drugs for the successful treatment of many diseases results in an increase in the number of people who live to their eighties and nineties at which time Alzheimer's disease is most prevalent. The steady progress which is being made in our understanding of this complex disease and in the development of drugs for its treatment are reviewed in Chapter 1. Chemotherapy of another disease which often resists treatment may have another weapon in its armoury if recent work on modifying a naturally occurring anticancer compound (camptothecin) succeeds in reducing its side-effects; recent efforts in this field (described in Chapter 2) may yield a drug of value in treating cancer of the colon and stomach.Transporting a drug molecule to a specific site of action continues to present a challenge. The use of phosphates and phosphonates to protect the drug from hydrolysis or o

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Progress in Medicinal Chemistry
Release date:	August 1997
Volume editors:	G.P. Ellis • D.K. Luscombe
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	276
ISBN-13:	978-0-444-82632-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Pharmaceutical technology
LSN:	0-444-82632-7
Barcode:	9780444826329

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