Principles of Pharmacology 1. 1.5 Credit Hour

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Principles of Pharmacology 1 is a 1.5 credit hour course that provide students with fundamentals of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. The course covers basic principles of Drug Disposition (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion), Dose-Response and Therapeutic Window, an overview of Pharmacogenomics, Ligand-Receptor Interactions (saturation, competition and kinetic binding methods), Affinity, Occupancy-Response Theories, Agonism and Intrinsic Efficacy, Antagonism, Allosterism, Constitutive Receptor Activity and Inverse Agonism, and Multi-Active State Models and Functional Selectivity. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have a comprehensive knowledge of the core principles of pharmacology. Open for Cross Enrollment on Space Available Basis.