A short history of the drug receptor concept / Cay-Rüdiger Prüll, Andreas-Holger Maehle, Robert Francis Halliwell.

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Paul Ehrlich and his receptor concept -- The development of the concept of drug receptors in the physiological research of J.N. Langley -- The receptors and scientific pharmacology I : the critics of the receptor idea and alternative theories of drug action, c. 1905-1935 -- The receptors and scientific pharmacology II : the critics of the receptor idea and alternative research strands : the transmitter theory, c. 1905-1935 -- Quantitative arguments for the existence of drug receptors and the development of the receptor occupancy theory, c. 1910-1960 -- The dual adrenaline receptor theory of Raymond P. Ahlquist (1914-1983) and its application in drug development between 1950 and 1970 -- The emergence of molecular pharmacology.