Safety Pharmacology in Pharmaceutical Development and Approval

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CRC Press, 2003 M08 26 - 208 pages
The Propulsid and Seldane drug disasters could have easily been avoided with more rigorous safety pharmacology studies of these compounds prior to any human clinical trials. Unfortunately, safety pharmacology has been overlooked by all but a few developers. With recent drug withdrawals from the market and the implementation of the International Con

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Contents

background history issues and concerns
1
2 Regulatory requirements of ICH US FDA EMEA and Japan MHW
17
3 Principles of screening and study design
23
4 Cardiovascular system
43
5 Central nervous system
65
6 Respiratory system
81
7 Renal function
95
8 The gastrointestinal system
109
9 Safety pharmacology of the immune system
123
10 Integration of evaluations of safety pharmacology endpoints into existing study designs
161
Selected regulatory and toxicological acronyms
177
Safety pharmacology labs
181
Index
185
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