Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
By K. E. Newhouse. 1986
In 1940, the world of pharmacology was revolutionized by the appearance of the first edition of this now-classic text. Edited by Lou Goodman and Al Gilman, it was a joy to read and a beacon in the darkness for teachers, students, and practitioners. (I can recall physicians saying they kept it on their bedside table for their nightly reading and pleasure.) The new edition remains a competently written and authoritative book, although it is now put together by 58 people instead of two, with the inevitable problems posed by such a division of labor. (One may envy the editors and the publishers the income from this best seller, but not the task of nagging recalcitrant authors with no respect for deadlines.) One may question, however, as in recent editions, the wisdom of combining a textbook for students and a reference for physicians. Those of us who teach second-year medical students
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- Applying extinction research and theory to cue-exposure addiction treatments. (2002, background): “For example, consider an individual who smokes a cigarette and experiences the direct effects of nicotine, including increases in heart rate and sweat gland activity and decreases in body temperature (Goodman & Gilman 1996).”
- Passive Permeability and P-Glycoprotein-Mediated Efflux Differentiate Central Nervous System (CNS) and Non-CNS Marketed Drugs (2002, methodology): “Drugs were selected from the literature (Gilman et al., 1993; van de Waterbeemd et al., 1998) with the objective of having a balanced number of CNS and non-CNS drugs.”
- ChEMBL: towards direct deposition of bioassay data (2018, background): “In order to begin to address this, pharmacokinetic measurements for 85 drugs have been extracted from reference books (21) and drug prescribing information (https://dailymed.”
- TarFisDock: a web server for identifying drug targets with docking approach (2006, background): “These drug targets may be categorized into 15 types, according to their therapeutic areas (20,22), as shown in Table 1.”