Pharmacogenetics and Individualized Therapy

Provides thorough coverage of pharmacogenetics and its impact on pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, and clinical practice.

It opens with the basics of pharmacogenetics, including drug disposition and pharmacodynamics. The following section moves into specific disease areas, including cardiovascular, psychiatry, cancer, asthma/COPD, adverse drug reactions, transplantation, inflammatory bowel disease, and pain medication. Clinical practice and ethical issues make up the third section, with the fourth devoted to technologies like genotyping, genomics, and proteomics. In the fifth part, chapters discuss the impact of key regulatory issues on the pharmaceutical industry.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Maitland-van der Zee, Anke-Hilse; Daly, Anne K.

ISBN:

978-0-47-043354-6

Specialty:

• Medical Genetics
• Pharmaceutical Science
• Pharmacology

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

510

Publication Year:

2012

Doody's Star Rating®:

Score:

93