Oxford Medical Handbook Collection (22 ebooks)

Huge collection of ebooks about Nanoscience (Encyclopedia, Nanochemistry, Nanomaterials, Nanomedicine, Nanobiology, Nanophysics, Nanoelectronics, Nanopolymers, Nanotechnology).

Handbook of Reward and Decision Making - 5.4MB

This book addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: how does the brain process reward and makes decisions when facing multiple options? The book presents the most recent and compelling lesion, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and computational studies, in combination with hormonal and genetic studies, which have led to a clearer understanding of neural mechanisms behind reward and decision making. The neural bases of reward and decision making processes are of great interest to scientists because of the fundamental role of reward in a number of behavioral processes (such as motivation, learning and cognition) and because of their theoretical and clinical implications for understanding dysfunctions of the dopaminergic system in several neurological and psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, pathological gambling, ...).
# Hardcover: 500 pages
# Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (12 Aug 2009)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0123746205
# ISBN-13: 978-0123746207

AMH Handheld 2009 v1.13 Mobile App | 6mb

Essential reference tools for medical practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, students, hospitals, aged care facilities and any health practitioners with an interest in the quality use of medicines.

AMH’s mission is to provide concise, practical, reliable, comparative drug information to promote the quality use of medicines in Australia. Our content is extensively researched and peer-reviewed, and we publish in book (hard copy), PC/Mac and handheld/mobile formats.

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1 Blood pressure measurement
In order to obtain accurate data with the indirect blood pressure methods that are used in surveys, it is important to follow the prescribed procedures precisely. Otherwise, correlation with the true blood pressure no longer holds. Therefore, the instructions given in the following sections should be incorporated into Manuals of Operation in their entirety.

In daily life blood pressure changes from instant to instant and is influenced by many physiological and environmental factors. To obtain reproducible results, it is important to control these factors as much as possible and otherwise document them in the blood pressure data recording forms (see Appendix 3.1). The items that need to be recorded before beginning the measurement are: time of the day, room temperature, arm circumference and cuff width used. Also, if deviations from the measurement protocol are unavoidable, e.g. a person has lost his/her right arm and the measurement had to be taken from the left arm or if a person for some reason is not able to sit and measurement had to be taken in recumbent position, they have to be documented together with the blood pressure data.

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Clinical Nephrotoxins: Renal Injury from Drugs and Chemicals, Third Edition is a comprehensive text on all aspects of adverse effects by drugs, chemical substances and radiation on the kidneys. The importance of the toxicity of drugs and other substances for the kidneys is increasingly recognized. The book consists of themes such as clinical relevance, renal handling and cellular mechanisms of nephrotoxicity, as well as animal and cell culture models. In addition, the volume highlights specific types of drugs, such as anti-infectious agents and anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular and anti-cancer drugs. The last section deals with prevention and focuses on urinary biomarkers, pharmacological aspects and drug dosage in renal failure. In this third and completely revised edition, several new topics were added and additional figures and tables will be included.

This timely and original handbook paves the way to success in plant-based drug development, systematically addressing the issues facing a pharmaceutical scientist who wants to turn a plant compound into a safe and effective drug. Plant pharmacologists from around the world demonstrate the potentials and pitfalls involved, with many of the studies and experiments reported here published for the first time. The result is a valuable source of information unavailable elsewhere.

The Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis provides in-depth, up-to-date methods and results of forensic drug analyses. Chapters written by leading researchers in the field discuss the various forms of the drug as well as the origin and nature of samples. How to perform various tests, the use of best practices, and the analysis of results are discussed in detail. Numerous forensic and chemical analytic techniques are covered including immunoassay, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry.

This complete volume is the only compendium of its kind on illicit drugs and analysis and should serve as a widely used reference for professionals. In addition, it can also be used as a standard textbook for graduate courses in forensic science.

- Contributed to by leading scientists from around the world.
- The only analysis book dedicated to illicit drugs of abuse
- Comprehensive coverage of sampling methods and various forms of analysis

A Practical, Authoritative CompendiumThis handbook catalogs 365 species of herbs having medicinal or folk medicinal uses, presenting whatever useful information has been documented on their toxicity and utility in humans and animals. Plants from all over the world - from common cultivars to rare species - are included in these 700 pages. The toxicity of these species varies, but the safety of each has been formally or informally questioned by the Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administra-tion, or Herb Trade Association.Easy-to-Locate Facts and FiguresDesigned to enable fast access to important information, this hand-book presents information in both catalog and tabular forms. In the catalog section, plants are presented alphabetically by scientific name. (The index permits you to locate an herb by its common name.) A detailed sketch of the chief identifying features accompa-nies most catalog entries. For each species the following information, as available, is presented and referenced:oFamily and colloquial namesoChemical contentoUses and applications - present and historicaloProcessing, distribution, and economic potentialoToxicological agents and degree of toxicityoPoison symptoms in humans and animalsoTreatment and antidotes oReferences to original literatureFive Tables of Accessible DataGiven a plant species, you can easily determine its toxins; or, given a toxin, you can discover which plants contain it. These and other data are presented in convenient tabular formats as appendixes to the handbook. Other information contained in these tables include toxicity ranking and other toxicity data (as applicable), such as mode of contact, organs affected, and lethal dose; and proximate analyses of selected foods. These tables are titled:oMedicinal Herbs: Toxicity Ranking and PricelistoToxins: Their Toxicity and Distribution in Plant GeneraoHigh Plant Genera and Their ToxinsoPharmacologically Active PhytochemicalsoProximate Analyses of Conventional Plant Foods