receptors themselves, together with their immediate signal transducers: ion channels, heterotrimeric
G-proteins, and tyrosine kinases.
The writers of the chapters in this book have been actively involved in teaching the various
courses, and our joint aim has been to provide a logical introduction to the study of drug receptors.
Characterization of drug receptors involves a number of different approaches: quantitative description
of the functional studies with agonists and antagonists, quantitative description of the binding
of ligands to receptors, the molecular structure of drug receptors, and the elements that transduce
the signal from the activated receptor to the intracellular compartment.
The book is intended as an introductory text on receptor pharmacology but further reading has
been provided for those who want to follow up on topics. Some problems are also provided for
readers to test their grasp of material in some of the chapters.
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