Cardiovascular Pharmacology

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Covers basic principles of drug action for specific drug classes; including chemical properties, mechanisms of drug action, clinical uses, disposition, contraindications, adverse reactions, clinically significant drug interactions, and drug-disease interactions. Prereq: Prior coursework in biochemistry or physiology or equiv., or permission of instructor. 5510 Responsible Conduct in Biomedical Research U G M 1 - 2 The broad intent of this course is to highlight the importance of responsible conduct in biomedical research and to explore how critical ethical thinking can be used to analyze personal decision-making, public regulation, and the law concerning advanced biomedical sciences/technologies and their clinical applications. This course will introduce students to professional and ethical issues. 5555 Epigenetics U G M 3 This course will provide an in depth understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying epigenetic inheritance, which is the inheritance of traits not encoded in the sequence of a genome. In addition, the course will provide students an opportunity to demonstrate command of the subject matter through a presentation from the current scientific literature. Prereq: MolGen 4606; or Biochem 5613, 5614, and 5615; or Grad standing; or permission of instructor.