Published March, 2008
By Frank Petersen and Rene Amstutz
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Drug Research
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They provide innovative opportunities in drug discovery, leading to a detailed understanding of biological pathways and revealing the functions of involved enzymes or receptors.This book highlights the biodiversity-driven approaches which are now of eminent importance in natural products research.

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Published March, 2008
By Frank Petersen and Rene Amstutz
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Drug Research
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The use of substances derived from plants, fungi, bacteria and marine organisms has a long tradition in medicine. It addresses the question why natural products display such a complex chemical information, what makes them often unique and what their characteristics are.

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Published December, 2007
By Peter Brandt
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: BVL-Reporte
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die Unbedenklichkeit tierischer Lebensmittel fur die menschliche Gesundheit sicher, schutzt Tiergesundheit und Naturhaushalt. Inspektionsbericht des Lebensmittel- und Veterinaramtes (FVO) zur Einhaltung der EU-Rechtsvorschriften (u.a. Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelsicherheit und -qualitat).

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Published December, 2007
By Jeffrey M. Weinberg
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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This volume provides an in-depth overview of the current state of psoriasis and its management. It reviews the clinical manifestations of psoriasis as well as psoriatic arthritis and emphasizes the evolving paradigm of therapy. Coverage includes topical and ultraviolet therapies as well as traditional systemic therapy.

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Published December, 2007
By Adriano Rossi, Deborah A. Sawatzky and Adriano G. Rossi
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
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This book provides readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive view on the resolution of inflammation and on new developments in this area, including pro-resolution mediators, apoptosis, macrophage clearance of apoptotic cells, possible novel drug developments.

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Published December, 2007
By S. R. Pandi-Perumal, Jaime M. Monti, David J. Nutt, Jaime Monti, Seithikurippu R. Pandi-Perumal, Barry L. Jacobs and Seithikurippu Ratnas Pandi-Perumal
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This book focuses on the neuropsychopharmacology of serotonin and its role in sleep and wakefulness, presenting neurochemical, electrophysiological, and neuropharmacological approaches to understand the mechanisms of serotonin and related substances.

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Published December, 2007
By William R. Miller, Aman U. Buzdar, J Michael Dixon, J. M. Dixon, B.J.A. Furr, R. Paridaens, Alasdair Brodie, A. Buzdar, P. E. Lonning, W.R. Miller, E.R. Simpson, A.E. Wakeling, Robert Paridaens, Angela Brodie, Aman Buzdar, Per Eystein Lonning, Evan R. Simpson and Alan E. Wakeling
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview on the different aromatase inhibitors. Whereas the first aromatase inhibitors to be used therapeutically could be shown to produce drug-induced inhibition of the enzyme and therapeutic benefits in patients with breast cancer, they were not very potent and lacked specificity.

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Published November, 2007
By Cédric Julien Poget
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
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Wahrend sich Befurworter von Parallelimporten hohe Einsparungen fur das Gesundheitswesen versprechen, befurchten die Gegner, dass die Einsparungen fur den Patienten gering, die Auswirkungen auf den Forschungsstandort Schweiz aber gravierend waren.

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Published November, 2007
By John P. H. Wilding
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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After three introductory chapters that deal with the general theme of obesity - now regarded as a chronic disease - this volume discusses the drugs sibutramine and orlistat, which are approved for long-term use in the US and in much of the rest of the world.

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Published November, 2007
By Frank Petersen and Rene Amstutz
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Drug Research
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In a real tour de force of pharmacological literature, this edited volume's chapters highlight the biodiversity-driven approaches which are now of eminent importance in natural products research.

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