Topics on Drug Metabolism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789535100997)

In order to avoid late-stage drug failure due to factors such as undesirable metabolic instability, toxic metabolites, drug-drug interactions, and polymorphic metabolism, an enormous amount of effort has been expended by both the pharmaceutical industry and academia towards developing more powerful techniques and screening assays to identify the metabolic profiles and enzymes involved in drug metabolism. This book presents some in-depth reviews of selected topics in drug metabolism. Among the key topics covered are: the interplay between drug transport and metabolism in oral bioavailability; the influence of genetic and epigenetic factors on drug metabolism; impact of disease on transport and metabolism; and the use of novel microdosing techniques and novel LC/MS and genomic technologies to predict the metabolic parameters and profiles of potential new drug candidates.

Author: James Paxton
ISBN-10: 9535100998
ISBN-13: 9789535100997
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2012
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d