Drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, malaria, and cancer. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gunjan Arora, Andaleeb Sajid, Vipin Chandra Kalia, editors.
• Editors: Arora, Gunjan; Sajid, Andaleeb; Kalia, Vipin Chandra
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Author Biographies; Emerging Themes in Drug Resistance; 1 Pharmacogenomics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Role of Pharmacogenomics in Drug Resistance; 1.2.1 Tuberculosis; 1.2.2 Epilepsy; 1.2.3 HIV; 1.3 Role of Pharmacogenomics in Drug Discovery; 2 Therapeutic Antibodies for Bacterial Diseases; 2.1 The Growing Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance; 2.2 The Need for New Therapeutic Interventions; 2.3 The Foundations of Antibody Therapy; 2.4 Antibody Structure; 2.5 Types of Therapeutic Antibody Molecules; 2.6 Clinical Pipeline; 2.6.1 Neutralization of Viruses and Toxins. 2.6.2 Opsonophagocytic Killing2.6.3 Complement Activation; 2.6.4 Antibody-Drug Conjugates; 2.7 Advantages and Disadvantages of Antibody Therapy; 3 Development of Drug Resistance Through Inter- and Intracellular Communication; 4 Exosome-Mediated Drug Resistance; 4.1 Extracellular Vesicles as Carriers of Drug-Resistant Traits Across Pathologies; 4.2 Vesicle-Mediated Drug Resistance in Noncommunicable Disorders; 4.3 Vesicle-Mediated Drug Resistance in Pathogenic Disorders; 5 Structuromics; 5.1 Role of Structuromics in Deciphering the Drug Resistance Mechanism. 5.2 Role of Structuromics in Drug Designing6 Posttranslationally Modified Protein Networks as Drug Targets; 7 Conclusions; References; Molecular Mechanism of Drug Resistance: Common Themes; 1 Introduction; 2 Mechanisms of Drug Resistance; 2.1 Intrinsic Resistance; 2.2 Acquired Resistance; 2.2.1 Diminution of Intracellular Antibiotic Load: The External Affairs; 2.2.1.1 Reducing Permeability: The Consular Affairs; 2.2.1.2 Enhancing the Efflux: The Deporting Mechanisms; 2.2.2 Modification of the Target: The Blacking Out; 2.2.2.1 Mutation of the Target. 2.2.2.2 Protection or Modification of the Target2.2.3 Neutralization of the Antibiotic: Warhead Destruction; 2.2.3.1 Hydrolytic Cleavage of the Antibiotic; 2.2.3.2 Addition of Functional Group; 3 Multi-, Extreme- and Pan-Drug Resistance: The Current Threats; 4 Conclusions and Future Perspectives; References; Molecular Mechanism of Drug Resistance; 1 Introduction; 2 Emergence of Drug Resistance: The Road So Far; 2.1 History of Antibiotic Resistance Development: A Problem Getting Worse; 3 Factors for Drug Resistance Development: The Ongoing Phenomena; 4 General Mechanism of Drug Resistance. 4.1 Intrinsic Resistance4.2 Acquired Resistance; 5 Drug Resistance Mechanism (Disease Specific); 5.1 Tumor Drug Resistance: An Evolving Paradigm; 5.2 Antibiotic Resistance: The Bacterial Weapons; 5.2.1 Survival Strategies; 5.2.2 Antibiotic Efflux Pump System; 5.2.3 Degradation of Antibiotic; 5.2.4 Alteration of Bacterial Target; 5.3 Tuberculosis: The Unsolved Puzzle; 5.4 Antifungal Drug Resistance; 5.4.1 Antifungal Agents and Their Mechanism of Action; 5.4.2 Ergosterol Biosynthesis Inhibitors (Azoles and Triazoles); 5.4.3 Polyenes; 5.4.4 5-Fluorocytosine: Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.9/014; Medicine; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Drug resistance in cancer cells; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Drug Resistance, Fungal; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Drug resistance in cancer cells; Drug resistance in microorganisms; Biomedicine; Drug Resistance; Cell Biology; Cancer Research; Bacteriology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Molecular Biology; Medical -- Oncology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Bacteriology; Cellular biology (cytology); Oncology; Bacteriology (non-medical); Drug interactions; Cytology; Oncology; Bacteriology; Medical -- Pharmacology; Pharmacology; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319486833; 3319486837
• Related ISBNs: 9783319486826; 3319486829
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