Syllabus:
Practical exercises:
- Experiment to demonstrate sympathomimmetic effects etc. qualitatively in experimental animals.
- Experiment to demonstrate certain actions in experimental animals which are characteristic of antipsychotic compounds.
- Experiment to identify the unknown drug based on the blood pressure recording of anaesthetized animal.
- Analysis of the data.
- Discussion of the given scientific paper.
- Critical views of the given prescription.
- Presentation of the dissertation work.
- Demonstration of the concept of competitive antagonism by using appropriate tissue and drugs.
- Estimating the potency of ACH solution by using appropriate biological tissue.
- Presenting a short lecture on the given topic.
- Preparing a protocol for the clinical trial of the new drug.
Theory:
- PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS: THE DYNAMICS OF DRUG ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION, ACTION, AND ELIMINATION MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS AND DRUG RESPONSE DRUG METABOLISM PHARMACOGENETICS
- THE SCIENCE OF DRUG THERAPY
- NEUROTRANSMISSION: THE AUTONOMIC AND SOMATIC MOTOR NERVOUS SYSTEMS
- MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS
- ANTICHOLINESTERASE AGENTS
- AGENTS ACTING AT THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION AND AUTONOMIC GANGLIA
- ADRENERGIC AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS
- 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE (SEROTONIN): RECEPTOR AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS
- NEUROTRANSMISSION AND THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- GENERAL ANESTHETICS
- LOCAL ANESTHETICS
- THERAPEUTIC GASES: OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE, NITRIC OXIDE, AND HELIUM
- HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES
- DRUG THERAPY OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY DISORDERS
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF PSYCHOSIS AND MANIA
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF THE EPILEPSIES
- TREATMENT OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS
- OPIOID ANALGESICS
- ETHANOL
- DRUG ADDICTION AND DRUG ABUSE
- HISTAMINE, BRADYKININ, AND THEIR ANTAGONISTS
- LIPID-DERIVED AUTACOIDS: EICOSANOIDS AND PLATELET-ACTIVATING FACTOR
- ANALGESIC-ANTIPYRETIC AGENTS; PHARMACOTHERAPY OF GOUT
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF ASTHMA
- DIURETICS
- VASOPRESSIN AND OTHER AGENTS AFFECTING THE RENAL CONSERVATION OF WATER
- RENIN AND ANGIOTENSIN
- TREATMENT OF MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
- THERAPY OF HYPERTENSION
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
- ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS
- DRUG THERAPY FOR HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA AND DYSLIPIDEMIA
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF GASTRIC ACIDITY, PEPTIC ULCERS, AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- TREATMENT OF DISORDERS OF BOWEL MOTILITY AND WATER FLUX; ANTIEMETICS; AGENTS USED IN BILIARY AND PANCREATIC DISEASE
- PHARMACOTHERAPY OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- CHEMOTHERAPY OF PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS: MALARIA
- CHEMOTHERAPY OF PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS: AMEBIASIS, GIARDIASIS, TRICHOMONIASIS, TRYPANOSOMIASIS, LEISHMANIASIS, AND OTHER PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS
- CHEMOTHERAPY OF HELMINTH INFECTIONS
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY
- SULFONAMIDES, TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE, QUINOLONES, AND AGENTS FOR URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
- PENICILLINS, CEPHALOSPORINS, AND OTHER b-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS
- AMINOGLYCOSIDES
- PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS AND MISCELLANEOUS ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS
- CHEMOTHERAPY OF TUBERCULOSIS, MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX DISEASE, AND LEPROSY
- ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS: ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS
- ANTIVIRAL AGENTS (NONRETROVIRAL)
- ANTIRETROVIRAL AGENTS AND TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION
- ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS
- IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS, TOLEROGENS, AND IMMUNOSTIMULANTS
- HEMATOPOIETIC AGENTS: GROWTH FACTORS, MINERALS, AND VITAMINS
- BLOOD COAGULATION AND ANTICOAGULANT, THROMBOLYTIC, AND ANTIPLATELET DRUGS
- PITUITARY HORMONES AND THEIR HYPOTHALAMIC RELEASING HORMONES
- THYROID AND ANTITHYROID DRUGS
- ESTROGENS AND PROGESTINS
- ANDROGENS
- ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADRENOCORTICAL STEROIDS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC ANALOGS; INHIBITORS OF THE SYNTHESIS AND ACTIONS OF ADRENOCORTICAL HORMONES
- INSULIN, ORAL HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS, AND THE PHARMACOLOGY OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS
- AGENTS AFFECTING MINERAL ION HOMEOSTASIS AND BONE TURNOVER
- DERMATOLOGICAL PHARMACOLOGY
- OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
- PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF POISONIN
- HEAVY METALS AND HEAVY-METAL ANTAGONISTS