Courses Handbook 2008

11679 (v.4) Pharmaceutical Biology 231


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** 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: 3 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 6934 (v.4) Human Biology 136 or any previous version
AND
    12931 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 120 or any previous version
    OR
    7288 (v.5) Pharmaceutical Biology 122 or any previous version
Syllabus: Enzymes, enzyme kinetics and their implications for drug metabolism. Basic biochemistry of protein, fats and carbohydrates. Hormones and biochemical control. Nucleotide metabolism. DNA and the gene. Cellular biochemistry of calcium. Biochemical principles in drug action. Digestion and absorption. Nutrition. Biochemistry of vitamins and trace elements, and antioxidant vitamins.
** 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: 010901 Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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

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