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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163014603321

Titolo

Taste and Smell / / edited by Dietmar Krautwurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-48927-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 199 p. 123 illus., 25 illus. in color.)

Collana

Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, , 1862-2461 ; ; 23

Disciplina

615.19

Soggetti

Medicinal chemistry

Proteins 

Pharmacology

Medicinal Chemistry

Receptors

Pharmacology/Toxicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Taste receptor gene expression outside the gustatory system -- Medicinal Chemistry of Plant Naturals as Agonists/Antagonists for Taste Receptors -- Chemical activation of TRP channels in taste and smell -- Olfactory transduction channels and their modulation by varieties of volatile substances -- Chemosensory G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) in blood leukocytes -- Neuronal functions and emerging pharmacology of TAAR1.

Sommario/riassunto

Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence sharing the experience of drug research is uniquely beneficial to the field of medicinal chemistry. Drug research requires interdisciplinary team-work at the interface between chemistry, biology and medicine. Therefore, the topic-related series Topics in Medicinal Chemistry covers all relevant aspects of drug research, e.g. pathobiochemistry of diseases, identification and



validation of (emerging) drug targets, structural biology, drugability of targets, drug design approaches, chemogenomics, synthetic chemistry including combinatorial methods, bioorganic chemistry, natural compounds, high-throughput screening, pharmacological in vitro and in vivo investigations, drug-receptor interactions on the molecular level, structure-activity relationships, drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, toxicology and pharmacogenomics. In general, special volumes are edited by well known guest editors.