BookFiona Cunningham, Jonathan Elliott, Peter Lees, editors.
Summary: This volume addresses not only a series of key topics in the discipline of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics that will be of interest to those researching and treating animal disease, but also emphasising the comparative aspects of the subject and the interface with human health and disease.
Contents:
Topics in veterinary pharmacology
Species differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Comparative and veterinary pharmacogenomics
Drug delivery systems in domestic animal species
Population medicine and control of epidemics
Interspecies allometric scaling
Pain and analgesia in domestic animals
New technologies for application to veterinary therapeutics
Interface of veterinary pharmacology and man
Genetically modified animals and pharmacological research
Antimicrobial drug resistance
Drug residues
Veterinary medicines and the environment
Veterinary medicines and competition animals: the question of medication versus doping control.