(Download) "Blood-Brain Barrier in Drug Discovery" by Li Di & Edward H. Kerns ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Blood-Brain Barrier in Drug Discovery
- Author : Li Di & Edward H. Kerns
- Release Date : January 29, 2014
- Genre: Pharmacology & Toxicology,Books,Professional & Technical,Medical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 27991 KB
Description
Focused on central nervous system (CNS) drug discovery efforts, this book educates drug researchers about the blood-brain barrier (BBB) so they can affect important improvements in one of the most significant – and most challenging – areas of drug discovery.
• Written by world experts to provide practical solutions to increase brain penetration or minimize CNS side-effects
• Reviews state-of-the-art in silico, in vitro, and in vivo tools to assess brain penetration and advanced CNS drug delivery strategies
• Covers BBB physiology, medicinal chemistry design principles, free drug hypothesis for the BBB, and transport mechanisms including passive diffusion, uptake/efflux transporters, and receptor-mediated processes
• Highlights the advances in modelling BBB pharmacokinetics and dynamics relationships (PK/PD) and physiologically-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK)
• Discusses case studies of successful CNS and non-CNS drugs, lessons learned and paths to the market