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Starting with serotonin : how a high-rolling father of drug discovery repeatedly beat the odds / Ann G. Sjoerdsma.
- Title
- Starting with serotonin : how a high-rolling father of drug discovery repeatedly beat the odds / Ann G. Sjoerdsma.
- Author
- Sjoerdsma, Ann G.
- Publication
- Kitty Hawk, N.C. : Improbable Books, c2008.
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- Description
- x, 617 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Sjoerdsma, Albert
- Sjoerdsma, Albert, 1924-
- 1900-1999
- Drug Discovery > history
- Pharmacology, Clinical
- Research
- Pharmacology > history
- Drug Discovery > history
- Pharmacologists > United States > Biography
- Drugs > History > United States > 20th century
- Drug development > United States > History > 20th century
- History, 20th Century
- Pharmaceutical Preparations > history
- History, 20th Century > Biography
- Pharmaceutical Preparations > history > Biography
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-580) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A maverick in the making -- Backdrop to the learning curve -- A wide range: hypertension, Serotonin, and Udenfriend -- The Carcinoid breakthrough and big-time stuff -- Going bananas -- The wild bunch "tools up" -- The journey to Aldomet -- Fishing in the collagen pool -- Tryptophan intoxication and the cheese reaction -- Eureka! The Carcinoid syndrome expands -- The Thalidomide shakeup -- Gangbusters and beating the odds -- The father and sons of clinical pharmacology -- The Demser® fix and Penicillamine -- Of patents and Parkinson's disease -- More explorations: SH rats, REM, and histaminase -- Goodbye, NIH ... bonjour, industry -- Zinc think and enzyme suicides -- The DFMO slam dunk -- Cincinnati defense and overhaul -- European clinical trials -- Cross-pollinating to Tryps and other parasites -- Hip, hip, hurray! The Seldane® breakthrough -- Troubleshooting Vigabatrin and Bendectin -- The resurrection drug -- A good time in the '80s -- The price of a two-bit merger -- Losing a blockbuster, saving a cure -- Appendix: biochemistry tracking sheet; A drug by all names.
- ISBN
- 9780615165585
- 0615165583
- LCCN
- ^^2007941455
- OCLC
- 191891314
- SCSB-10081366
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library