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Volume 27. Antidiabetic Agents: Recent Advances in their Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology
1st Edition
Serial Volume Editors:
- eBook ISBN 9780080526706
- Print ISBN 9780120133277
- Print ISBN 9780123909077
Description
Volume 27, the first thematic volume in the Series, provides an overview of present knowledge with regard to the pharmacological and clinical aspects of antidiabetic drugs. It aims to stimulate further consideration of possible concepts in the development of new antidiabetic drugs.
Readership
Pharmacologists, medicinal chemists, and toxicologists.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis.
Clinical Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus.
Mechanisms of Insulin Action.
Therapeutic Use of Insulin.
The Secretory Machinery of Insulin Release.
Compounds Acting on Insulin Secretion: Sulphonylureas.
Compounds Acting on Glucose Uptake: Biguanides.
Compounds Acting on Glucose Absorption.
Aldose Reductase Inhibitors as New Antidiabetic Drugs.
Conclusions.
References.
Cumulative Index of Authors.
Cumulative Index of Titles.
Details
- No. of pages:
- 231
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © 1996
- Published:
- 8th May 1996
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080526706
- Print ISBN:
- 9780120133277
- Print ISBN:
- 9780123909077
About the serial-volume-editors
Bernard Testa
Affiliations and Expertise
University Hospital Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland
Urs Meyer
Affiliations and Expertise
Biocentre, University of Basel, Switzerland