About pharmacology (Lecture 1)

Pharmacology

Derived : greek word= pharmakon (drug)+logos(study)

Definition:

Pharmacology can be defined as the study of substance that interect with living system through chemical process, especially by binding to regulatory molecules and activating or inhabiting normal body process.

Branch:

# Clinical pharmacology

      -Pharmacodynamics(the drug does to the body)

      -Pharmacokinetics(the body does to the drug)

#  Therapeutics

# Pharmacy

-Pharmacognosy(deals sourse, identification, isolation, purification and         standardization of drug)

      -Phamaceutical chemistry(deals synthesis of new drug)

      -biopharmaceutics(deals formation of drug)

# Toxicology

# Pharmacogenetics

# Immunopharmacology

# Chemotherapy

Reasons for taking drug history from patient:

• Detecting drug hypersensitivity
• Avoiding drug antagonism
• Avoiding failure to drug response
• Avoiding/ minimizing adverse effect
• Avoiding unwanted synergistic effect