Product Description: Twenty-two essays reinterpret old information and present new findings in migraine treatment. They investigate receptor subtypes, agonists, and antagonists, headache recurrence after subcutaneous sumatriptan, recurrent migraine, positron emission tomography studies, the pharmacology of food and drink, the role of nitric oxide, neurotrophines, perivascular peptides, abnormal coritcal information, genetic complexity, and Chromosome 19...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A high proportion of drugs currently coming to market exert their action in the body by inhibiting a target enzyme involved in a particular body function or in a bacterium, protozoon, or virus causing an infection. This book extends the previous volume in providing a comprehensive coverage of more recently recognized target enzymes and their known inhibitors and, within this framework of knowledge, demonstrates how the drug designer uses all available information to develop a specific therapeutic agent...read more

Product Description: Research on 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has exploded over the past decade and nowhere have the implications been more far-reaching than in psychiatry. Through the introduction of radioligand binding techniques, a bewildering variety of central 5-HT receptors has been revealed, and powerful new families of centrally active drugs have emerged...read more

Product Description: This fascinating volume examines the ways in which drugs can influence the appetite and the effects that food itself can have on the body, thus covering both the pharmacology of feeding and the action of foodstuffs as pharmacological agents...read more

Product Description: Mental Illness in Pregnancy and Puerperium (Oxford medical publications) [Jun 01, 1979] Sandler, Merton