Overview
- Provides an overview of the pharmacology of the four histamine receptors and describes how histamine is synthesized and the insights derived from mice where this synthesis is disrupted
- Discusses the important role of histamine in neurotransmission and for the treatment of various neurological disorders
- Explains the future of antihistamine research and the potential for novel antihistamines targeting the newest members of the histamine receptor family—the H3 and H4 receptors
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 709)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Robin L. Thurmond, PhD is a Compound Development Team Leader with the Clinical Research group at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development in La Jolla, California. Prior to that he was a Research Fellow with the Immunology Drug Discovery group at the same site. He received his BA in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Arizona. Dr. Thurmond studied membrane biophysics at the University of Arizona and worked on the molecular aspects of rhodopsin function during his postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dr. Gobind Khorana. He began his career with Johnson & Johnson in 1996 at the RW Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Raritan, New Jersey, and has been with Johnson & Johnson for over 14 years. Dr. Thurmond currently resides in San Diego, California.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Histamine in Inflammation
Editors: Robin L. Thurmond
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8056-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8055-7Published: 16 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8056-4Published: 29 June 2011
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 143
Topics: Biomedicine general, Human Physiology