PHCL412

Students will learn about the history of pharmacology, along with the principles of how drugs act to produce changes within the body. Lectures will include the anatomy and physiology of body structures, with special emphasis on the processes that govern drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. Other lectures will include the processes that establish and maintain the intracellular electrical charge and the membrane potential, and nerve impulse conduction. Students will learn detailed information about the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular system, including how these systems are regulated and how they can malfunction. Lectures will include how different drugs act to alter the function of the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular system.

Fall