Unit 1 Translation Skills 1
Text A The Heritage of Pharmacy 1
Text B Introduction of the Scientific Viewpoint 3
Additional Information 6
Exercises 9
Unit 2 Inorganic Chemistry 10
Text Important Biomolecules (1) 10
Additional Information 13
Exercises 14
Unit 3 Organic Chemistry ＆ Biochemistry 15
Text A Important Biomolecules (2) 15
Text B Biochemical Reactions 17
Text C Heterocycles 20
Reading Material Optimization of Reactions 26
Additional Information 30
Exercises 31
Unit 4 Analytical Chemistry 33
Text A Some General Notices and Requirements applying to tests and assays 33
Text B Acacia 40
Text C Alginic Acid 42
Text D Aspirin 43
Reading Material The United States Pharmacopeia and the National Formulary 45
Additional Information 49
Exercises 50
Unit 5 Microbiology 53
Text A The Microbial World 53
Text B Aseptic Technique 54
Text C The Diversity of Microorganisms 55
Reading Material Measuring Bacterial Growth 57
Additional Information 61
Exercises 62
Unit 6 Molecular Biology 65
Text A Creating the Clone 65
Text B Introduction of Foreign DNA Molecules into Bacteria 66
Text C Selection of cDNA Clones 67
Text D Southern Blotting 68
Text E Polymerase Chain Reaction 69
Reading Material A Genomic DNA Clones 69
Reading Material B Production of Mammalian Proteins in Bacteria 70
Additional Information 70
Exercises 71
Unit 7 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics 73
Text A Introduction to Drugs 73
Text B Oral Route 77
Text C Dosage Forms and Routes of Administration 81
Additional Information 85
Exercises 88
Unit 8 Introduction to Inserts for Imported Drugs 90
Text A Diaformin Tablets 90
Text B Angised Tablets 91
Text C Ciprofloxacin 94
Additional Information 101
Exercises 105
Unit 9 Fermentation Processes 107
Text A Strain Improvement 107
Text B Fermentation 109
Text C Antibiotics 111
Text D Bioreactors 115
Reading Material Growth and Culturing of Bacteria 119
Additional Information 120
Exercises 121
Unit 10 Separation Processes 123
Text A Downstream Processing in Biotechnology 123
Text B Filtration 124
Text C Release of Intracellular Components 127
Text D Concentration of Biological Products 129
Reading Material Purification by Chromatography 133
Additional Information 134
Exercises 135
Unit 11 Dosage Forms Production 137
Text A Pharmaceutic Ingredients 137
Text B Tablets 141
Text C Hard Gelatin Capsules 147
Text D The Preparation of Parenteral Products 149
Text E Rectal Route,Epicutaneous Route,and Ocular,Oral,Nasal Routes 152
Additional Information 155
Exercises 156
Unit 12 GMP Guidance for Industry 158
Text A Laboratory Controls 158
Text B Aseptic Processes Design 162
Text C Air Filtration 164
Text D Injections—Methods of Sterilization 165
Additional Information 170
Exercises 171
Unit 13 Developments 172
Text A Pharmacognosy in the 21st Century 172
Text B Recent Developments in Combinatorial Organic Synthesis 177
Text C Fishing for Drugs from the sea:status and strategies 182
Additional Information 188
Exercises 188
Unit 14 Natural Products for Health-promoting 189
Text A Health-promoting Properties of Flavonoids 189
Text B Help for the Immune System 191
Text C Herbs with Anticancer Activity 192
Exercises 195
Unit 15 Bioinformatics 197
Text A What is Bioinformatics 197
Text B Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information(NCBI) 197
Text C What Bioinformatics Can Do 198
Text D Alignment 198
Reading Material Protein Structure Prediction Method 200
Additional information 202
Exercises 203
Unit 16 Chemical Abstracts 204
Text A A Short Guide to Writing Abstracts 204
Text B Abstracts 207
Additional Information 211
Appendix Ⅰ Glossary of Prefixes,Roots,Suffixes 214
Appendix Ⅱ Glossary of Molecular Cell Biology 216
Appendix Ⅲ Vocabulary 232