Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

7376 (v.4) Introductory Pharmacology 129


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.0
** 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. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Pharmacy and pharmacology: basic mechanisms of drug action; pharmacokinetics; drugs, dosage and toxicity; drugs and receptors; agonists and antagonists; routes of administration, biotransformation and excretion; factors affecting responses to drugs; pharmacogenetics; immunopharmacology; drug tolerance and drug interaction. Drugs acting on the nervous system, drugs affecting the heart, and drugs used to treat high blood pressure, allergies, fever, inflammation and pain. Drugs affecting behaviour, sedativeand anti-anxiety drugs, anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs. Recreational drugs including alcohol, cannabis and ecstasy.
** 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. **
Field of Education: 019907 Pharmacology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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