Concepts in Biochemical Pharmacology

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This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publlsher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin· Heidelberg 1975. Softcover reprint of the hardcover ist edition 1975 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (Revised) Main entry under title: Concepts in biochemical pharmacology. Handbuch der experlmentellen Pharmakologie. Handbook of experimental pharmacology. New series, v. XXVIII, 1, etc. Includes bibliographies. I. Drug metabolism-Collected works.!. Argy, W. P. II. Brodie, B. B., ed. III. Gillette, James R., 1928-ed. IV. Ackerman, Helen S., ed. V. Series: Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologle, v. XXVIII, 1 QP905.H3 Bd. 28, t. 1, etc. [RM301] 615'. 7 79-135957 ISBN 0-387-05134-1. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trade marks, etc. in this pUblication, even if the former are not especially Identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordlngiy be used freely by anyone. PrefacePart 3 of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (Concepts in Biochemical Pharmacology) applies the principles enunciated in Parts 1 and 2 to clinical pharmacology and toxicology. The major objective is to elucidate the many factors that determine the relationships between pharmacokinetic aspects of the disposition and metabolism of drugs and their therapeutic or toxic actions in man.Because of the more restricted information obtainable in human studies, this volume reflects the editors' bias that an understanding of pharmacokinetics is fundamental for assessing pharmacologic or toxicologic effects of drugs in humans. The first chapter is a unique primer on when to apply and how to use pharmacokinetic tools in human pharmacology. The second chapter explains the general assumptions underlying pharmacokinetic approaches both in simple terms for the novice and in mathematical form for the more sophisticated reader.Several chapters on determinants of drug concentration and activity discuss drug absorption, drug latentiation, drugs acting through metabolites, enterohepatic drug circulation, influence of route of drug administration on response, genetic variations in drug disposition and response, age differences in absorption, distribution and excretion of drugs, and pathologic and physiologic factors affecting absorption, distribution and excretion of drugs and drug response. The focus of these chapters is data obtained in human, rather than animal, studies. Most of the chapters contain new material never summarized previously.The section on drug interactions opens with a chapter in which all drug interactions are viewed as result...