Drug Addiction From Basic Research to Therapy [Paperback]

This book provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain. The volume focuses on the translation of fundamental addiction research to a variety of treatments and brings together scientists with wide ranging expertise.

Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain. Based on the AAPS-NIDA Frontiers in Science Symposium Drug Addiction: From Basic Research to Therapies, this volume, representing focuses on the translation of fundamental addiction research to a variety of treatments, bringing together scientists with widely ranging expertise in synthetic and computational chemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and neuroscience with researchers in drug discovery and development, drug targeting, and quantitative therapeutics.

I. General Topics 1. Per Svenning, Angus C. Nairn and Paul Greengard DARPP-32 mediates the actions of multiple drugs of abuse 2. Young-Won Chin, Marcy J. Balunas, Hee Byung Chai, and A. Douglas Kinghorn Drug discovery from natural sources 3. Patricia H. Reggio Computational methods in drug design: Modeling G protein-coupled receptor monomers, dimers and oligomers 4. Joni L Rutter Symbiotic relationship of pharmacogenetics and drugs of abuse 5. Eric Peterson, S. Michael Owens, and Ralph L. Henry Monoclonal antibody form and function: Manufacturing the right antibodies for treating drug abuse 6. MJ Kuhar, JN Jaworski, GW Hubert, KB Philpot and G. Dominguez CART peptidelÃ^