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THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2013/14: OVERVIEW

Stephen PH Alexander, Helen E Benson, Elena Faccenda, Adam J Pawson, Joanna L Sharman, John C McGrath, William A Catterall, Michael Spedding, John A Peters, Anthony J Harmar

BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2013

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Abstract

The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2013/14 provides concise overviews of the key properties of over 2000 human drug targets with their pharmacology, plus links to an open access knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands (www.guidetopharmacology.org), which provides more detailed views of target and ligand properties from the IUPHAR database. The full contents can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.12444/full. This compilation of the major pharmacological targets is divided into seven areas of focus: G protein-coupled receptors, ligand-gated ion channels, ion channels, catalytic receptors, nuclear hormone receptors, transporters and enzymes. These are presented wi..

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We are extremely grateful for the financial contributions from the British Pharmacological Society, the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, the Wellcome Trust (099156/Z/12/Z]), which support the website and the University of Edinburgh, who host the guidetopharmacology.org website.