Practical Manual of Pharmacology-I

 Pharmaceutical Research is continuously being carried out on new chemical moieties for better health care and to provide safe, more effective and affordable medications. Such research starts from experiments on animals, i.e. preclinical testing, before conducting clinical testing on human volunteers. Experimental Pharmacology aims to study the therapeutic value of a drug for its suitability for human use, study of its toxicity, and its mechanism and site of action.  It also facilitates the production of new and better drugs in therapeutics, discovery of new, simple and better techniques for experiments, bioassay and standardization of drugs. Todays experimental pharmacology has tremendously changed compared to conventional techniques. The advancement in the field of molecular biology, biochemistry, electrophysiology and digital or electronic recording systems and software has improved and widened the horizons of experimental pharmacology.  With the advancement in technique of experiments on animals, the equipment available for the pharmacology laboratory has greatly improved, mainly through the use of computers to control experiments and record data, which makes them easier to use and improve the quality of data.  This book is written with the objective to describe all the experiments as simply as possible, with diagrammatic explanations, to highlight basic principles for particular methods to be used, to introduce various equipment used in experimental pharmacology, to study guidelines for maintenance of experimental animal etc