2.44908 PHARMACEUTICAL STEREOCHEMISTRY & NSAIDS

The aim of the course is to introduce students to drugs used to treat or alleviate the suffering in the more or less intractable disease conditions; to introduce students to the knowledge of relationships in drug action and their rationale; to further develop necessary knowledge underpinning drug action. On completion, the student should be able to: demonstrate skills involved in the selection and use of the most beneficial drugs in the disused category; show understanding of the different generalisations of mechanisms of drug action; have an understanding of drug receptor interactions; have an appreciation of peptide drugs; and have an understanding of the medicinal chemistry of calcium channel blockers and H2- antagonists.

Contact hours: 6 hours per week (2 Lectures, 1 tutorial, 3 hour practical).

Assessment: Tests, assignments, practicals (60%), final exam (40%).

Prerequisite: 2.34905

Text:

class="it"Doege, R.F., (ed) Wilson and Gisvold's Textbook of Organic, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 8th edition. J.B Lipincott Co., Philadelphia