TY - BOOK AU - Glennon,Richard A. AU - Young,Richard ED - Wiley InterScience (Online service) TI - Drug discrimination: applications to medicinal chemistry and drug studies SN - 9781118023150 AV - RM302.7 .D784 2011eb U1 - 615/.19 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - Wiley KW - Drug discrimination (Pharmacology) KW - MEDICAL KW - Drug Guides KW - bisacsh KW - Nursing KW - Pharmacology KW - Pharmacy KW - fast KW - Pharmacological Phenomena KW - Discrimination (Psychology) KW - drug effects KW - Discrimination Learning KW - Drug Discovery KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter -- Color Plates -- Part I. Part Introduction -- An Introduction to Drug Discrimination -- Methodological Considerations -- Drug Discrimination: Practical Considerations -- Role of Stereochemistry in Drug Discrimination Studies -- Drug Discrimination and In Vivo Structure₆Activity Relationships -- Drug Discrimination and Mechanisms of Drug Action -- Drug Discrimination and Development of Novel Agents and Pharmacological Tools -- Appendix -- Part II. Part Introduction -- Perceptual Drug Discriminative Aspects of the Endocannabinoid Signaling System in Animals And Man / Torbj̲rn U C J̃rbe -- Discriminative Stimulus Properties of Receptor Antagonists / Joseph H Porter -- The Discrimination of Drug Mixtures / Ian P Stolerman -- Making the Right Choice: Lessons From Drug Discrimination for Research on Drug Reinforcement And Drug Self-Administration / S Stevens Negus, Matthew L Banks -- Inhalant Drug Discrimination: Methodology, Literature Review and Future Directions / Keith L Shelton, Robert L Balster -- Drug Discrimination Studies in Rhesus Monkeys: Drug Dependence and Withdrawal / Jun-Xu Li, Lisa R Gerak, Charles P France -- Human Drug Discrimination: Methodological Considerations and Application to Elucidating the Neuropharmacology of Amphetamines / Craig R Rush, Andrea R Vansickel, William W Stoops -- Nicotine Discrimination in Humans / Kenneth A Perkins -- Drug Discrimination: A Perspective / Francis C Colpaert -- Index; An introduction to drug discrimination -- Methodological considerations -- Drug discrimination : practical considerations? -- Role of stereochemistry in drug discrimination studies -- Drug discrimination and in vivo structure-activity relationships -- Drug discrimination and mechanisms of drug action -- Drug discrimination and development of novel agents and pharmacological tools -- Perceptual drug discriminative aspects of the endocannabinoid signaling system in animals and man -- Discriminative stimulus properties of receptor antagonists -- The discrimination of drug mixtures -- Making the right choice : lessons from drug discrimination for research on drug reinforcement and drug self-administration -- Inhalant drug discrimination: methodology, literature review, and future directions -- Drug discrimination studies in rhesus monkeys : drug dependence and withdrawal -- Human drug discrimination : methodological considerations and application to elucidating the neuropharmacology of amphetamines -- Nicotine discrimination in humans -- Drug discrimination : a perspective N2 - Although somewhat labor intensive, Drug Discrimination (DD) is of enormous applicability to the understanding of drug action. Drug Discrimination: Applications to Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Studies covers the practical applications of drug discrimination studies for medicinal chemistry, including strengths and limitations versus other pharmacological methods for evaluating drug action. The book provides medicinal chemists with a fuller understanding of the nature and use of drug discrimination studies for evaluating the action of drugs while helping pharmacologists understand and better interact with medicinal chemists and drug designers when sharing pharmacologic data UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118023150 ER -