SU503: Pharmacology (5 ECTS)

STADS: 29000301

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.
4th quarter

Teacher responsible
Email: tjohansen@health.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Revison of timetable:
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Passed BMB503 Fundamental Biochemistry and SU501 Anatomy. Furthermore SU502 Medical Physiology must be known.

Course introduction
To give the students a thorough knowledge in classic receptor pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and the effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action at the cellular level and organ level. The teaching aims is to give the students a close knowledge to the chemical signals that works on cells and organic tissues and knowledge to the effect of drugs on these signal mechanisms, which develops through interaction with receptors, enzymes and ion transportation mechanisms.

Expected learning outcome
• Prove knowledge to basic concepts of the interaction between drugs and receptors.
• Prove knowledge to pharmacokinetics and made simple calculations by first order kinetics.
• Prove knowledge to basic concepts of drug administration, absorption, distribution and elimination.
• Explain the consequences of drug-receptor interaction on intracellular and extracellular signal mechanisms.
• Explain the consequences and the mechanisms of action of the regulation of the renal and cardio-vascular function, the pulmonary function, the gastrointestinal function, and the endocrine organs by the autonomic nervous system and the influence of drugs on this regulation.
• Prove knowledge to the effects and mechanisms of the effects of the mediators of the immune system and the possible influence of drugs.
• Prove knowledge of the effects of drugs on the renal and cardio-vascular function, the pulmonary function, the gastrointestinal function, and the endocrine organs.
• Prove knowledge of the effects on the blood-forming organs of iron, folic acid and vitamin B12.
• Prove knowledge to common side effects of drugs, side effects that might be dangerous and toxic effects of drugs.

Subject overview
General Pharmacology
• Receptor pharmacology
• Pharmacokinetics
• The autonomic nervous system

Cardiovascular pharmacology
Endocrine pharmacology
Inflammation and immunopharmacology


Literature

• Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology, . , Churchill Livingstone, 6.udgave, 2007.
• Jens P. Kampmann, Kim Brøsen, Ulf Simonsen: Basal og klinisk farmakologi, FADL´s Forlag, 3.udgave, 2007.

Syllabus
See syllabus.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
a) 4 hour writen exam, with external censorship and grades according to the danish 7-point scale.

b) Lab. work, Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger (40), eksaminatorier og gruppearbejde (10) og studenterpræsentationer (10).
Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
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