BIOLOGY 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Depressant, Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Vasodilation
18 Sep 2017
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Pharmacology lecture 1- introduction: define pharmacology, list several of its subdivisions, and describe its place along the pharmaceutical sciences. The study of substances that interact with living systems through chemical processes. Some of its subdivisions are chemotherapy, neuropharmacology, cardiovascular. Pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmacogenetics: appreciate the history of pharmacology. Around the 17th century reliance on observation and experimentation began to replace theorizing in medicine. Material medica, the science of drug preparation and the medical uses of drugs began to develop as the precursor to pharmacology. In the late 18th and early 19th century the methods of experimental physiology and pharmacology developed. This helped to lay the foundation down needed for understanding how drugs work at the organ and tissue levels. Then the first institute of pharmacology at the university of dorpat, estonia was founded. Receptor: what a drug binds to, to produce its physiologic effect. Response: therapeutic response, biologic response, adverse drug reactions, non-therapeutic uses, explain pharmacokinetics.
