HUBS1416 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ergosterol, Drug Resistance, Bipolar Disorder
12 Oct 2018
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The use of chemicals to destroy pathogens which have invaded the body. Includes the use of chemicals to destroy our own cells which have become malignant. Chemotherapy aims to exploit any differences between cancer cells and your own healthy cells, however cancer cells have become very similar to own cells so that it is harder for them to be destroyed. Outline the targets which are exploited by antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and cytotoxic drugs. Dna/rna synthesis uses different enzymes. do not. ribosomes. Bacteria have tough, thick cell wall, ours. Fungi have ergosterol in their cell membrane, we have lipids and cholesterols. Viruses have specific proteins on its coat to bind with host cell and be taken into cell. Virus uncoats once inside cells and releases its genetic material. Virus dna directs host cell to replicate its dna. Virus directs host cell to make viral coats and assemble new viral particles.
