Pharmacology (from Greek f??µa???, pharmakon, 'poison in classic Greek; drug in modern Greek'; and -????a, 'Study of' -logia) is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action.[1] More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals.
Description: Senior Project Collection
Spec. Coll. copy is part of a collection (Collection 1605). To page this item, use the collection record; to find the collection record, search the title: Nitka collection of fantastic fiction. Item is in box 134. Purchase, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, 1967
Middle Ages ; Archaeology ; Archeologie ; Middeleeuwen
Bibliography: p. 237-239; Antibiotics
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection; Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI); Medical Library Collection; Historical Literature; Includes bibliographies
Description: Bulletin (West Virginia University. Agricultural Experiment Station)
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection; Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI); Medical Library Collection; Historical Literature; Bibliography: p. 351-533
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection; Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI); Medical Library Collection; Historical Literature; Bibliographical footnotes
Government Reference Publication
Introduction: Although submammalian species were used for many decades to evaluate the effect of environmental agents on the development of the conceptus, the use of mammalian species dates back only to around the turn of the last century (1). Experimental mammalian teratology as we have known it in the past several decades came into being in the early 1960s as a result of the thalidomide tragedy. The term developmental toxicology was first brought into published writing...
Microbiology ; Bacteriology ; Antibiotics
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; Microfilmed for preservation
Excerpt: During the last decade the science of genetic toxicology has experienced dramatic growth in its volume of experimentation, its variety of assays, and the level of public awareness of it. Even laymen are likely to have heard of some of the tests in this field or seen newspaper accounts of results from one. This growth, in all its dimensions, is attributable to the ability of these test systems to detect, rapidly and relatively inexpensively, environmental agents ...
Includes bibliographical references
Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ; Boston Library Consortium
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; Bibliographical foot-notes; Microfilmed for preservation