文档介绍：BURGER'S MEDICINAL
CHEMISTRY AND
DRUG DISCOVERY
4
Sixth Edition
Volume 3: Cardiovascular Agents
and Endocrines
Edited by
Donald J. Abraham
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
School of Pharmacy
monwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
WILEY-
INTERSCIENCE
A john Wiley and Sons, Inc., Publication
PREFACE
,
Editors, Editorial Board Members, and sixth edition, we devote an entire subsection
Wiley and Sons have worked for three of Volume 4 to cancer research; we have also
a half years to update the fifth edition of reviewed the major published Medicinal
ger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Dis- Chemistry and Pharmacology texts to ensure
wvery. The sixth edition has several new and that we did not omit any major therapeutic
unique features. For the first time, there will classes of drugs. An editorial board was consti-
an online version of this major reference tuted for the first time to also review and sug-
rk. The online version will permit updating gest topics for inclusion. Their help was
and easy access. For the first time, all volumes greatly appreciated. The newest innovation in
are structured entirely according to content this series will be the publication of an aca-
and published simultaneously. Our intention demic, "textbook-like" version titled, "Bur-
was to provide a spectrum of fields that would ger's Fundamentals of Medicinal Chemistry."
new or experienced medicinal chem- The academic text is to be published about a
biologists, pharmacologists and molecu- year after this reference work appears. It will
iologists entry to their subjects of interest also appear with soft cover. Appropriate and
as well as provide a current and global per- key information will be extracted from the ma-
spective of drug design, and drug develop- jor reference.
There are numerous colleagues, friends,
Our hope was to make this edition of and associates to thank for their assistance.
Burg