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PCL 301 General Pharmacology I

300 levelMedical & Health Sciences11 topics

PCL 301 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Theories of drug action; agonists, antagonists and affinity constants
  2. Therapeutic index
  3. Principles, design and types of bioassay
  4. Routes of drug administration
  5. Factors determining absorption, distribution and excretion of drugs
  6. Drug dosage regimen
  7. Introduction to drug metabolism, enzyme induction and drug interactions
  8. Introduction to pharmacokinetics
  9. Pharmacology of cholinergic nerve transmission
  10. Cholinergic receptors and their classification
  11. Cholinesterases and anticholinesterases

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Theories of drug action; agonists, antagonists and affinity constants

This topic focuses on how drugs produce effects, especially through receptor-based theories of drug action, and how agonists and antagonists differ in affinity and efficacy. For exams, you must be able to explain basic receptor concepts, distinguish types of agonism and antagonism, and interpret affinity-related ideas such as dissociation constants in a clear pharmacological way.

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