OE Principles of Pharmacology

Written as a primary textbook for a first course in pharmacology, this text offers a truly integrated, systems-based approach to understanding drug therapy. Each chapter begins with a clinical case specific to a target organ system, and then incorporates the anatomy, cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology of that system in the discussion of different drug classes that affect the system. This approach gives students a conceptual foundation for understanding how and why pharmacologic agents are effective for diseases specific to each organ system. Nearly 600 two-color illustrations show molecular, cellular, biochemical, physiologic, and pathophysiologic processes underlying diseases and depict targets of drug therapy. Each chapter includes summary tables of drugs by mechanism, class, side effects, interactions, and contraindications.