Pharmacology and toxicology
Dr Margot Story
12 points * Four 1-hour lectures and one 6-hour lab per week * First semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: PHY2011 and PHY2022
Pharmacology can be broadly described as the study of chemicals on living tissues. PHA3011 (Pharmacology and toxicology) introduces the basic principles of drug action including study of qualitative and quantitative aspects of interactions with living systems. The sites and mechanisms of actions of drugs affecting neurotransmission and humoral mechanisms are dealt with in some detail. This component of the subject provides a framework for the study, in the remainder of this subject, of the actions and therapeutic applications of major groups of drugs which are used in medicine. It also provides a basis for the second subject in pharmacology. Students may choose one or other of the textbooks listed below.
Assessment
Written (2000 words): 10% * Examinations (3 hours): 50% * Laboratory work/Semester test and assignments: 40%
Prescribed texts
Gilman A G and others Goodman and Gilman's The pharmacological basis of therapeutics 8th edn, Pergamon Press, 1990
or
Rang H P and Dale M M Pharmacology 2nd edn, Churchill Livingstone, 1991