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PCL 302 General Pharmacology II

300 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

PCL 302 covers 10 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. Hypertension and types of antihypertensive drugs
  2. Diuretics
  3. Vasodilators and antianginal drugs
  4. Cardiac glycosides and antiarrhythmic drugs
  5. Calcium channel blockers
  6. Autacoids: histamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine and prostaglandins and their antagonists
  7. Leukotrienes and their pharmacodynamic roles
  8. Organisation and function of the endocrine system
  9. Pituitary and pineal hormones; insulin and glucagon
  10. Sex hormones, contraceptive steroids and fertility regulation

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Hypertension and types of antihypertensive drugs

This topic covers hypertension as a sustained elevation of arterial blood pressure and the major classes of drugs used to reduce it. For exams, you must master how blood pressure is controlled, how different antihypertensive drugs act, their main uses, and the adverse effects or contraindications that often appear in multiple-choice questions.

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