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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

311044 (v.1) Biochemical Pharmacology 224

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 311032 (v.1) Molecular Pharmacology 231 or any previous version
OR
11679 (v.4) Pharmaceutical Biology 231 or any previous version
Syllabus: Local hormones: mediators of inflammation and allergy: Eicosanoids. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; COX-1 and COX-2 antagonists. Histamine H1 receptor blockers. Anti-inflammatory Agents: Disease-modifying anti-rheumatoid drugs (DMARDs); quinolones, gold salts, TNF? and IL-1 antagonists, immunosuppressants. Leucotrienes and leucotriene receptor antagonists; lipoxygenase inhibitors. Uric acid modifying drugs. Antiplatelet drugs. Immunosuppression: Corticosteroids; drugs affecting nucleic acid metabolism; folate antagonists; IL-2 receptor blockers. Purines. Serotonergic (5-HT) transmission: Classification of serotonergic receptors. Serotonin receptor agonists and antagonists. Pain Pathways: Drugs used in pain control. Opioid analgesics and antagonists: Morphine and chemically related opioids; tramadol, methadone and related drugs. Opioid partial agonists and antagonists. Local anaesthetics and general anaesthetics. Antineoplastic agents: Nucleic acids: Anti-neoplastics Gastrointestinal System: Ca metabolism. Vitamins/nutrition. Digestion. Drugs affecting gastro-intestinal secretion, emesis and motility.
Field of Education: 019907 Pharmacology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External