Main description:

Smart Therapeutics: Synergistic Combinations presents the state-of-the-art on smart therapeutics, helping researchers develop new approaches for less toxic and more effective drug combinations. The book demonstrates that highly-toxic synthetic drugs may be rendered safe through synergistic combinations with natural products. The volume consists in six parts, giving a historical overview and covering drug development, drug interactions, synergic relations in drug discovery and combination therapy, calculations in designing synergistic combinations, and clinical approaches to synergistic combinations. This volume presents the latest work in combining natural and synthetic drugs for more effective, less toxic pharmaceuticals of use in clinical practice.

Historically, the use of natural medicine was followed by the discovery of synthetic drugs, and in recent years, a resurgence in the use of natural substances which may have fewer negative side-effects when compared with synthetic drugs.

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction to the Historical overview for synergy in therapy

Part 2. Drug development
1. Drug development strategies and future view
2. From Teriac to Aspirin
3. Mixing and compounding in drug discovery
.4. Combination therapy in pharmaceutical sciences

Part 3. Drug interactions
1. From Pharmacology to toxicology
2. Interactions in phytomedicines
3. Natural product-natural product interactions
4. Natural product-synthetic drug interactions
5. Natural product-food/beverage interactions
6. Interactions on genomic level: Pharmacognenomics aspects

Part 4. Synergic relations in drug discovery and combination therapy
1. Synergy in nature and natural products
2. Synergic essential oil combinations
3. Synthetic drug+ natural product combinations
4. Combination technologies
5. The art of combination: pharmaceutical technology
6. Combinatorial vs Combinational Chemistry

Part 5. Calculations in designing of synergistic combinations

Part 6. Clinical approaches for synergistic combinations