Table of Contents

Good Clinical Practices / Role of Ethics Committee in Clinical Research / Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies in Drug Development / Overview of Adverse Drug Reactions and their Monitoring / Idiosyncratic Drug Reactions : Revisited / Promoting Rational Use of Drugs through Drugs and Therapeutics Committees / Drugs and Therapeutics Committees: From a Pharmacist's Perspective / Evaluation of Drug Safety / Good Laboratory Practices: An Overview / Vitamins and its Genomic Stability in Humans: Redefine the RDA / Involvement of Renin-angiotensin System in the Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Disease / Pharmacological Basis of the Action of Antiarrhythmic Drugs / Experimental Models of Atherosclerosis for the Development of Therapeutic Interventions / Characteristics and Mechanisms of Cardioprotection due to Ischemic Preconditioning / Pharmacological Treatment of Resistance Vessel Remodeling in Hypertension / Possible Implication of Rho-kinase in Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction / Drug Usage during Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Ventricular Dysfunction / Abdominal Obesity, Low-degree Inflammation and Cardiovascular Diseases in Developing Countries / Mechanism of Sensory Transduction in Cardiopulmonary Receptors / Interaction between Aspirin and Ace Inhibitors / Targeting Molecular Pathways in Stroke / Neutrophil Nitric Oxide Synthase : Functional, Biochemical and Molecular Perspectives / Nitric Oxide and the Central Nervous System: Perspectives and Trends / Application of Bioinformatics in Drug Designing in Antimalarial Drug Targets / Rational Therapy of Tuberculosis Using Fixed-Dose Combination Products : Bioavailability and Stability Issues / Rational Antibiotic Therapy in Hospital-acquired Pneumonia / Tumor Cell Surface Integrins and Metallomatrix Proteinases (MMPs) Cross-talk: A Potential Area for Developing Anti-Metastatic Drugs / Free Radicals and Drug Toxicity: Focus on Theophylline / Search for a Safe, Effective and Specific Treatment for Chronic Arsenic Poisoning / Pesticide-induced Immunomodulation: Influence of Various Factors / Prakriti to Genome: A Journey from Vedic to Genomic Era / Clinical Trials on Herbal Drugs: Limitations and Way Forward / Rational Approach for the Safe Use of Herbal Medicines / Ulcer Protective Effect of Aqueous Extract of Neem (Azadirachta indica) Leaf / Index