PP3150 - Chemical Pharmacology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
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The general principles of drug action, focussing on the major targets for drug action, drug-receptor interactions, chemotherapy, drug design, pharmacognosy and drug screening, toxicology and measurements in pharmacology.
Learning Outcomes
- current approaches to the development of new pharmaceutical agents, including drug design, drug screening and natural product pharmacology;
- how drug treatments may be aimed at specific targets, increasing the efficacy of treatment and reducing side effects;
- how drugs are able to affect the functioning of living systems;
- the principles of selective toxicity and the development of antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal and cancer chemotherapy agents;
- the rationale behind drug formulations and different routes of administration, the time course of drug action, drug metabolism and toxicology.
| Prerequisites: | BC2024 |
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| Census Date 24-Mar-2006 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Alan Nimmo. |
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| Assessment: | (70%); (30%). |
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