Pharmacology: Course Outline (517-IIB)

1 Chemotherapy

Basic principles of chemotherapy

Antibacterials

• Folate antagonists
• Sulphonamides
• Cell wall synthesis inhibitors
• Penicillin
• Cephalosporins
• Carbapenam
• Monobactam
• Protein synthesis inhibitors
• Aminoglycosides
• Tetracyclines
• Chloramphenicol
• Macrolides
• Nucleic acid synthesis inhibitors
• Quinolones and miscellaneous antibiotics
• Antimycobacterial drugs
• Urinary tract antiseptics

 Anti-fungals

Anti-virals

Anti-protozoals

• Anti-malarias
• Anti-amebiasis
• Anthelmintics and anti- leishmanials

Anti-neoplastic drugs 

2 Immunopharmacology

• Pharmacology of immuno-suppressants and stimulants

3 Toxicology

Pollution and its types

• Water
• Air
• Food

Poison and principle of treatment of poisoning

Poisoning (Sign & symptom and treatment

• Ethanol
• Barbiturates
• Digitalis
• Salicylates
• Strychnine
• Narcotics
• Nicotine
• Paracetamol
• Benzodiazepines and organophosphorous compounds

Chelating agents and their role in poisoning

• Dimercaprol
• Calcium disodium edentate (Calcium EDTA)
• Pencillamine and defroxamine