Biopharmaceuticals (eBook)

Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Gary Walsh (Autor)

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2013 | 2. Auflage
544 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-68738-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The latest edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biopharmaceutical products. Biopharmaceuticals refers to pharmaceutical substances derived from biological sources, and increasingly, it is synonymous with 'newer' pharmaceutical substances derived from genetic engineering or hybridoma technology.

This superbly written review of the important areas of investigation in the field, covers drug production, plus the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action together with the biotechnology of major biopharmaceutical types on the market or currently under development. There is also additional material reflecting both the technical advances in the area and detailed information on key topics such as the influence of genomics on drug discovery.

Autor

Gary Walsh is a senior lecturer in industrial biochemistry at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He combines industrial experience within the pharmaceutical industry with an extensive teaching and academic research background in pharmaceutical biotechnology. He has published half a dozen highly acclaimed books on various aspects of protein biotechnology. He is on the editorial board of several biopharmaceutical journals and is closely affiliated with the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology, serving as its scientific secretary.

Inhalt

Preface.

Chapter 1. Pharmaceuticals, biologies andbiopharmaceuticals.

Chapter 2. The drug development process.

Chapter 3. The drug manufacturing process.

Chapter 4. The cytokines--the interferon family.

Chapter 5. Cytokines: interleukins and tumour necrosisfactor.

Chapter 6. Haemopoietic growth factors.

Chapter 7. Growth factors.

Chapter 8. Hormones of therapeutic interest.

Chapter 9. Blood products and therapeutic enzymes.

Chapter 10. Antibodies, vaccines and adjuvants.

Chapter 11. Nucleic acid therapeutics.

Appendix 1. Biopharmaceuticals thus far approved in the USA orEuropean Union.

Appendix 2. Some Internet addresses relevant to thebiopharmaceutical sector.

Appendix 3. Two selected monographs reproduced from theEuropean Pharmacopoeia with permission from the EuropeanCommission: I. Products of recombinant DNA Technology; II.Interferon a -2 concentrated solution.

Appendix 4. Manufacture of biological medicinal products forhuman use. (Annex 2 from The Rules Governing Medicinal Productsin the European Community, Vol. 4, Good Manufacturing Practices forMedicinal Products).

Index.

Rezensionen

"...contains just about everything that anyone would want to
know about the subject...It's all here in this easy-to-read
textbook." (Biochemistry and Molecular Education,
March/April 2004)

"...well written... (and) copiously illustrated..."
(Chemistry & Industry, 17th January 2005)

"This book should be recommended reading for all
under-graduate course in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences
...". (Cell Biochemistry & Function, March-April
2005)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Biotechnologie • Biotechnologie i. d. Biowissenschaften • Biotechnology • Biowissenschaften • Cell & Molecular Biology • Chemie • Chemistry • Life Sciences • Medizinische Chemie • Molekularbiologie • Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry • Pharmazeutische u. Medizinische Chemie • Zell- u. Molekularbiologie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-68738-8 / 1118687388
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-68738-3 / 9781118687383