Mechanisms of Receptor Regulation

by George Poste

Book Overview

It is less than 80 years since John Newport Langley first proposed the role of "receptive substances" as the site of drug action from his obser- vations on the effects of nicotine and curare at the myoneural junction. The many advances in our understanding of receptor biology that have occurred during the intervening period mirror the extraordinary growth of knowledge in the biological sciences and in cell and molecular biology in particular. Receptor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146129259X
• ISBN13: 9781461292593
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"