TY - BOOK AU - Krupadanam, G L David AU - Vijaya Prasad, D. AU - Rao, K Varaprasad AU - Reddy, K L N AU - Sudhakar, C. TI - Drugs SN - 9788173713866 U1 - 615.1 KRU-G PY - 2001/// CY - India PB - Universities Press KW - Pharmaceutical chemistry N1 - Drugs have played a central role in the progress of human civilization. There are many important stages before a compound is used as a drug to treat a disease. This book deals with the historical aspects of the development and use of drugs, vitamins, hormones; their classification, synthesis and formulation; and the general principles of drug actions. The pharmacokinetics, the interaction of drugs in the targeted receptor and mode of drug synthesis is explained in detail ER -