This book considers the major stages of drug interactions with specific and nonspecific receptors, describing the characteristics of the molecular structure of ligands essential for their proper binding to specific receptors and to protect them from losses in the organism. Coverage encompasses molecular recognition in the ligand-receptor system, forces that participate in drug-receptor complex formation, thermodynamics and kinetics of drug-receptor complex formation, drug interactions with specific and nonspecific receptors at a distance, recognition and molecular drug design, and methods for studying drug-receptor interactions. Author information is not given. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR