Online Courses Handbook 2003

8013 (v.5) Pharmacology 224

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Contact Hours:	6.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11677 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 233 or any previous version AND 11679 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 231 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224
Introduction to pharmacodynamics of drug action - relationships between drug dosage (concentration) and drug effect. Drug-receptor interaction - structure-activity relationships. Drug acting at synaptic and neuro-effector junctional sites. Sympatho-adrenal system structure and function, noradrenergic transmission and the role of adrenaline and pharmacological implications. Sympathomimetic drugs; drugs which modify sympathetic neuronal activity and block sympathomimetic receptors. Cardiovascular drugs - Anti-arrhythmic agents.