This volume, the sixth in the series The Prostaglandin System assembles most of the lecture notes from the International School of Pharmacology on Prostanoids and Drugs that took place in Erice, Sicily, at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture on Sept 5-15, 1989. The course, which was a NATO Advanced Study Institute, comprised detailed discussion of basic metabolic pathways of arachidonic acid as well as their location in the everyday practice of clinical medicine. The current status of our knowledge on drugs affecting prostanoid metabolic pathways, and/or their functinal effects,...