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Krupadanam, G. L. David, PhD (Osmania) is Professor of NEW
Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Osmania
University. He has more than two decades of postgraduate
teaching and research experience. *Prasad, D. Vijaya, Ph.D. is Reader and Head, Department of Chemistry at New Government College, Hyderabad, and has more than 30 years of teaching experience. *Rao, K. Varaprasada, Ph.D. is a Reader in Chemistry at New Science College, Hyderabad with 20 years of teaching experience. *Reddy, K L N, Ph.D. did his doctoral work at IICT, Hyderabad. He has eighteen years of teaching experience and is a lecturer at New Government College, Hyderabad. Sudhakar, C, MSc. has more than a decade of experience in undergraduate
teaching and is now a Lecturer in Chemistry at New Government College, Hyderabad. Drugs have played a central role in the progress of human civilization. There are many important stages before a compound is used as a drug to treat a disease. The
first stage is drug discovery; the second stage is the manufacture and the third stage is the formulation of the drug in the form of tablets, capsules, injections and solutions. Some drugs like penicillin have been discovered quite accidentally, while some plant-derived drugs have been known to man since very early times, for example, quinine, ephedrine, cocaine, and morphine. This book deals with the historical aspects of the development and use of drugs, vitamins, hormones; their classification, synthesis and formulation; and the general principles of drug actions. The pharmacokinetics, the interaction of drugs in the targeted receptor, and mode of drug synthesis is explained in detail. 168pp (2001) ISBN 81 7371 386 3
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