Adventures in Autopharmacology: A Biographic View with Digressions into Other Matters
| Autor: | M J Rand |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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| Zdroj: | Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 33:25-44 |
| ISSN: | 1545-4304 0362-1642 |
| DOI: | 10.1146/annurev.pa.33.040193.000325 |
| Popis: | I have not had the opportunity, and perhaps I lacked the ability, to achieve the dream of most pharmacologists; that is, to play an instrumental role in the development of a therapeutically useful drug. By chance, as I will relate, my main research has been in autopharmacology, which may be defined as the pharmacological study of the natural constituents of the body which have regulatory roles; thus, it is in the borderland between physiology and pharmacology. Autopharmacology has its own rewards and provides essential basic information to those who are in the business of developing new drugs. Following the example of several earlier writers of prefatory chapters, I opted for an autobiographical approach. But the more cogent reason for an autobiographical approach is that the directions of research are determined not only by the logical progression of scientific accomplishments, but by more mundane circumstances. |
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