Pharmaceutical bioassay technology

Author: Li Yumei
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book can also serve as teaching material for adult education programs such as evening classes, vocational colleges, and correspondence courses in medical and pharmaceutical institutions. It is a textbook designed for students majoring in pharmacy and traditional Chinese medicine in higher vocational colleges. From content to form, it strives to reflect the characteristics of higher vocational education. The arrangement breaks traditional teaching models, organizing the core content around "technical routes." Theoretical knowledge is written to meet essential and sufficient requirements, compiled in the Knowledge section of each chapter, to facilitate the training of students' abilities and achieve the standards of applied technical talents. The book is divided into 14 chapters. The content includes: preparation of test sample solutions; preparation of double dishes; sterility testing; microbial total count testing of drugs; control of bacteria and mites; microbial determination of antibiotic potency; testing of genetically engineered drugs; biological testing in GMP; statistical methods for biological assays and computer operations; virulence and abnormal toxicity testing; pyrogen and bacterial endotoxin testing; biological assay of insulin; bioactivity testing of several common drugs; and blood pressure-regulating substance testing. Each chapter is followed by review questions and practical exercises.