Challenges in psychopharmacology: a drug information centre perspective

Use of a pilot drug information centre.

INTRODUCTION Provision of access to drug information by prescribers and other health care professionals is important in pharmacotherapy. At the time of this study there was very scanty literature in this area from Africa. OBJECTIVE To assess use of a pilot drug information centre (DIC) which was set up in a department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in a university teaching hospital in Ugand...

New Challenges for Translational Psychopharmacology

The young history of psychopharmacology began by studying the infl uence of drugs, whatever they were, on the behaviour of both rodents and human. That was the birth of psychotropic’s found by serendipity. After a few years, psychopharmacology began to evaluate scientifi cally the “old” drugs and the new one; it was the true beginning of a new science. Nowadays psychopharmacology is a link betw...

B.C.'s Drug and Poison Information Centre.

ACTION A selective inhibitor of the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) enzyme. Lowers blood glucose levels by increasing insulin secretion and decreasing hepatic glucose production. Enhances the glucose-stimulated insulin secretion response to GLP-1 and GIP, which are released when food in the GI tract raises blood glucose levels above 3.05 mmol/L (55mg/dL). GLP-1 and GIP are incretin (INtestinal s...

Psychopharmacology, Sexual Disorders and Drug Abuse

features of short story in translated and non-translated literature: a polysystemic perspective

ترجمه متون ادبی در دنیای امروز از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. فرهنگ های مختلف با استفاده از متون ادبی ملل و فرهنگ های دیگر سعی در غنی کردن فرهنگ و ادبیات کشور خود دارند. کشور ما نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. در ایران، ترجمه متون ادبی اروپائی که با دوران مشروطه ایرانی آغاز می شود موجب تغییرات اساسی در فرهنگ، شیوه زندگی و تفکر ایرانیان شده است. در این دوران نه تنها در امورات سیاسی و فکری کشور تغی...