250-205 Veterinary Pharmacology

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Students completing the program in Veterinary Pharmacology should know and understand:

• the language of pharmacology;

• the concept of drug receptors, ligand-receptor interaction and molecular responses;

• the characteristics of the main classes of drugs used therapeutically in veterinary practice;

• the principles of pharmacokinetics;

• the principles of pharmacodynamics and the effects of the major classes of drugs on physiological and biochemical processes;

• the differences in response to drugs within and between species of animal;

• the principles of chemotherapeutics; and

• the toxicology of therapeutic drugs, agricultural and industrial chemicals and of plant and animal toxins.

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General pharmacology; drugs acting at autonomic synapses; drugs acting on the central nervous system; autacoids and anti-autacoids; drugs modifying cardiac function; drugs affecting fluid and electrolyte balance; anabolic and haematinic agents; drugs acting on the gastrointestinal tract; selective toxicity and chemotherapeutic agents; toxicology.

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