Biotechnology and Pharmacy

Contributors. Preface. Part I: Basic elements of biotechnology: Background to recombinant DNA technology; L.G. Davis. Background to monoclonal antibodies; M.E. Klegerman. Lymphokines and monokines; M.E. Klegerman, N.P. Plotnikoff. Analytical methods in biotechnology; R.J. Prankerd, S.G. Schulman. The impact of biotechnology on analytical methodology; J.F. Fitzloff. Drug delivery aspects of biotechnology products; D.J. Burgess. Part II: Applications of biotechnology in the pharmaceutical sciences: Applications of recombinant DNA technology to the diagnosis of genetic disease: molecular methods for detecting the genetic basis of diseases; D.R. Maglott, W.C. Nierman. Human genome mapping and sequencing: implications and applications in the pharmaceutical science; C.E. Hildebrand, R.L. Stallings, D.C. Torney, J.W. Fickett, N.A. Doggett, D.A. Nelson, A.A. Ford, R.K. Moyzis. Clinical use of monoclonal antibodies; J.M. Brown. Anti-AIDS drug development; P. Mohan. Oral adenoviruses as the carriers for human immunodeficiency virus of hepatitis B virus surface antigen genes; M.D. Lubeck, S. Mizutani, A.R. Davis, P.P. Hung. The use of nonclassical techniques in the production of secondary metabolites by plant tissue cultures; B. O'Keefe, C.Wm.W. Beecher. Applications of biotechnology in drug discovery and evaluation; C.K. Angerhofer, J.M. Pezzuto. Peptide turn mimetics; M.E. Johnson, M. Kahn. Part III: Biotechnology and the practice of pharmacy: Biotechnology products: an overview; D. Brixner. The pharmacist practitioner's role in biotechnology: clinical application of biotechnology products; J.P. Engle, D.M. Kraus, L.S. Parent, M. Dean-Holland. Human trials of biotechnology products: a perspective; W. Leigh Thompson. Index.