Course Description
Introduction to pharmacology, history and its subdivisions; drugs and their origin, routes of drug administration; general principles in pharmacology (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism: enzyme induction and inhibition, elimination, excretion and clearance of drugs); essentials of drug action, nature of drug receptors and drug receptor interactions with signaling mechanisms, concepts of agonist-antagonist and their types, dose response relationships, efficacy, potency and therapeutic index, variation in drug responses; adverse drug reactions; introduction of autonomic nervous system, synthesis and metabolic pathways of neurotransmitters, cholinergic and adrenergic transmission and autonomic receptors, cholinergic, anticholinergics, adrenergic and antiadrenergic drugs, ganglionic and neuromuscular blockers
Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles governing the drug actions, adverse drug reactions and drug interactions both in clinical pharmacy practice as well as in basic and clinical research that include drugs used in cardiovascular system (hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias); thromboembolic diseases, bleeding disorders and anemias; drugs used in treatment of dyslipidemias
Practice/lab: Handling of animals, effects of agonists and antagonists on smooth muscle, dose-response curves; effects of drugs on blood pressure and cardiovascular physiology
Course ID: PHTX 301
Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 4 | 4.50 | 4.50 | 3 | 12 | - |
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