Written as an introductory pharmacology text, Basic Pharmacology: Understanding Drug Actions and Reactions provides the in-depth discussion of the chemical and molecular pharmacology fundamentals that pharmacy students require to move on to more advanced study. The book covers the principles of chemistry and biology necessary to understand drug action at the cellular level. It emphasizes the chemical and physical properties of drugs, drug absorption and distribution, drug interactions with cellular receptors, and drug metabolism and interactions. The book effectively explains chemical and molecular pharmacology principles with extensive use of model drug structures. Written as an introductory pharmacology text, Basic Pharmacology: Understanding Drug Actions and Reactions provides the in-depth discussion of the chemical and molecular pharmacology fundamentals that pharmacy students require to move on to more advanced study. Employing the extensive use of model drug structures, the authors effectively explain chemical and molecular pharmacology principles. The book covers the principles of chemistry and biology necessary to understand drug action at the cellular level. It emphasizes the chemical and physical properties of drugs, drug absorption and distribution, drug interactions with cellular receptors, and drug metabolism and interactions.

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