Book contents
- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Section I Basic Principles
- Chapter 1 Drug Passage across the Cell Membrane
- Chapter 2 Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion
- Chapter 3 Drug Action
- Chapter 4 Drug Interaction
- Chapter 5 Isomerism
- Chapter 6 Pharmacokinetic Modelling
- Chapter 7 Applied Pharmacokinetic Models
- Chapter 8 Medicinal Chemistry
- Section II Core Drugs in Anaesthetic Practice
- Section III Cardiovascular Drugs
- Section IV Other Important Drugs
- Index
Chapter 3 - Drug Action
from Section I - Basic Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2021
- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Section I Basic Principles
- Chapter 1 Drug Passage across the Cell Membrane
- Chapter 2 Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion
- Chapter 3 Drug Action
- Chapter 4 Drug Interaction
- Chapter 5 Isomerism
- Chapter 6 Pharmacokinetic Modelling
- Chapter 7 Applied Pharmacokinetic Models
- Chapter 8 Medicinal Chemistry
- Section II Core Drugs in Anaesthetic Practice
- Section III Cardiovascular Drugs
- Section IV Other Important Drugs
- Index
Summary
Drugs may act in a number of ways to exert their effect. These range from relatively simple non-specific actions that depend on the physicochemical properties of a drug to highly specific and stereoselective actions on proteins in the body, namely enzymes, voltage-gated ion channels and receptors.
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- Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care , pp. 23 - 36Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021