Home Home Home Sitemap

Skip Navigation Links.
Collapse Faculty of MedicineFaculty of Medicine
Administration
Missions & Objectives
Clinical Year Medical
Students Guideline
Health and Safety
Committee Guidelines
Research & Publications
Teaching & Training
Activities
Guidlines for social
and networks
FOM Time Table
Final Exam
Elective Application Form
Undergraduate Handbook
2024-2025
Student's Sick Leave Form
Expand Centre for Research  <br /> Support & ConferencesCentre for Research
Support & Conferences
Conferences
Collapse DepartmentsDepartments
Expand AnatomyAnatomy
Animal Resources Center
Expand BiochemistryBiochemistry
Expand Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Expand Community MedicineCommunity Medicine
Expand Electron MicroscopyElectron Microscopy
Expand Medical PhotographyMedical Photography
Expand MedicineMedicine
Expand MicrobiologyMicrobiology
Expand Nuclear MedicineNuclear Medicine
Expand Obstetrics & GynaecologyObstetrics & Gynaecology
Expand PaediatricsPaediatrics
Expand PathologyPathology
Expand PharmacologyPharmacology
Expand PhysiologyPhysiology
Expand Primary CarePrimary Care
Expand PsychiatryPsychiatry
Expand RadiologyRadiology
Expand SurgerySurgery


Introduction

Pharmacology is a discipline, which deals with the interactions of chemical compounds and living systems. It is mainly concerned with the action of those chemical agents which are used in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease states. Pharmacology has, historically, provided the basis for most medical treatment, and remains the preferred mode of intervention in disease. It also has provided powerful tools for probing the function of biological systems. Pharmacology has always been a fundamentally interdisciplinary field, positioned at the intersection of physiology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, behavioral neuroscience, and medicine. Typically, important advances in the pharmacological sciences have followed from research that bridges these fields. Toxicology, on the other hand, is the science of poisons and how they cause damage to living systems. The discipline covers the adverse effects of drugs and other chemicals, as well as ways to detect and treat such adverse effects.

Pharmacology dep.


Copyright © 1993 - 2024
Health Sciences Center - All Rights Reserved.