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Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volume 58, 2018

A Chemical Perspective of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Abstract

My chemical training provided a somewhat different perspective of biolo-gical problems, in the problem itself and approaches to its solution. I was fortunate to have in my laboratory postdocs and students who shared this perspective and used appropriate tools to address problems in amphetamine pharmacology and air pollution toxicology. These apparently disparate areas of research shared two chemical reactions: prooxidant-based generation of reactive oxygen and formation of covalent bonds between electrophiles and biological nucleophiles. This article is an attempt to summarize that research and to identify those individuals who made the contributions.

Keyword(s): amphetamine, dopamine, electrophiles, prooxidants, quinones
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