Textbook of Personalized Medicine

• Main Author: Jain, Kewal K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Toxicology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0769-1

Personalized medicine is the concept that selection of a treatment should be tailored according to the individual patients specific characteristics, including age, gender, height/weight, ethnicity, diet, and environment , versus a decision based on standards of care derived by averaging responses...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of Personalized Medicine
• Molecular Diagnostics as Basis of Personalized Medicine
• Role of Biomarkers in Personalized Medicine
• Pharmacogenetics
• Pharmacogenomics
• Role of Pharmacoproteomics
• Role of Metabolomics in Personalized Medicine
• Personalized Biological Therapies
• Development of Personalized Medicine
• Personalized Therapy of Cancer
• Personalized Management of Neurological Disorders
• Personalized Therapy of Cardiovascular Diseases
• Personalized Management of Miscellaneous Disorders
• Personalized Preventive Medicine
• Organization of Personalized Medicine
• Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Personalized Medicine
• Economics of Personalized Medicine
• Future of Personalized Medicine.