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This book is designed to meet the modern need for a better
understanding of drug-receptor interaction as applied to the
gathering and interpretation of dose-response data. It is an
introduction suitable for any student who has had a first course in
pharmacology. This book is an extension of the pharmacology course
into one area of what is now known as molecular pharmacology. The
material included is an outgrowth of courses that we have given in
recent years to health-science students in several professional
schools and universities. The area of drug-receptor theory,
although just a part of molecular phar macology, is already very
broad. One major line of investigation is concerned with the
chemical and structural nature of specific receptors and with
efforts to isolate specific receptors. Another line of
investigation is concerned with the kinetic theories of
drug-receptor interaction, the effort there being to provide a
general theory that is applicable to wide classes of drugs. We have
chosen to deal with the latter. There are several reasons for our
choice of topics. First, the information is very practical; that
is, it permits one to use properly and consistently terms such as
"efficacy," "partial agonist," "pure antagonist," "potency," "pA2'"
etc., when describing drug action. Second, many students fail to
appreciate the differences in and the limitations of the various
theories, beginning with the classical theory of A. J. Clark, on up
to the very recent allosteric theories."
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