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Molecules and Medicine

E. J. Corey, Barbara Czakó, László Kürti

ISBN: 978-0-470-26096-8

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272 pages

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Authoritatively co-written by a Nobel Laureate, this book offers a wide range of readers an understanding of medicinal agents and human illness at the molecular level.\
Organized by disease category for easy use as a reference or teaching text, coverage includes inflammatory, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases, reproductive diseases, osteoporosis, glaucoma, ulcer, auto-immune and oxygen transport diseases, malignant diseases, and diseases of the central nervous system
Focuses on more than 120 of the most important and commonly used drugs such as cholesterol lowering medicines, anti-clotting agents, oxytocins, Viagra, antibiotics, antimalarial, cancer drugs, and pain medicines (Aleve, analgesics, migraine medications), insomnia medications, anti-obesity medications, anti-smoking medications, anti-epileptic medications, and anti-depressants
Provides a brief step-by-step how-to on reading and understanding chemical structures of molecules, followed by a complementary introduction to protein structures
Supplementary focus sections provide a biomedical background to aid in understanding, with coverage including inflammation, metabolic syndrome, immunology, drug resistance, cancer and neurotransmission
Full and thoroughly referenced to the primary literature, all protein structures are also linked to the publicly available online protein database