Pharmacology & Medicinal Chemistry III

Catalog description

This course continues to expand the pharmacy student’s knowledge of the fundamentals of pharmacology and toxicology, re‐emphasizing critical objectives with regard to drug Mechanism of Action, Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Elimination. Extensive review of drug structure, receptor binding, and Medicinal Chemistry will be a focal point for the course. The Medicinal Chemistry sections of this course will emphasize drug structure as a determinant of receptor binding, receptor activation, and receptor antagonism. The students will have to be able to draw basic structures. The students will also continue their drug‐drug interaction project from the previous semester. Prerequisites: (PHAR 432 or 6320 ).