Pharmacology I

Catalog description

This course focuses on the action of drugs in animals and basic principles of drug disposition and pharmacokinetics. The course will provide presentations on the principles of pharmacology of medications used in animals. Principles of autonomic pharmacology will form a foundation that is important to other drug groups. Important drug groups discussed during the course will be sympathetic and parasympathetic agonists and antagonists, anesthetic, sedative, and tranquilizer drugs. During the chemotherapy portion of the course, anti-infective agent chemotherapy will be discussed, which includes antibacterial, antiparasitic, antifungal, and antiviral drugs. Anticancer agents also will be considered in the chemotherapy portion of the course.