Veterinary 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. We will then cover medications used to treat conditions of the brain and behavior, hemostatic, endocrine, and respiratory systems. The material you learn in this semester will be building blocks for additional systems therapeutics in the Spring semester ( VMB 943 ). This course will consist of recorded lecture material, case presentations, in-class activities/discussions, individual and group assignments, and presentations by guest lecturers.