Introduction to medicinal chemistry
- Chemical constitution and biological activity
- Receptor
- Theory
- Structure activity relationships SAR
- Drug metabolism
- Modern concept of rational drug design
- Prodrug
- Combinatorial chemistry
- Computer aided drug design CADD and concept of antisense molecules
Drug targets and drug designing
- Introduction and types of drug targets
- Introduction to molecular modeling and computational chemistry
- Structure based designing
- Ligand based designing
- Various techniques in drug synthesis
General properties chemistry biological action structure activity relationship and the therapeutic applications of the following
Hormones
- Steroidal hormones
- Testosterone
- Progesterone
- Estrogen
- Aldosteron and cortisol
- Proteinous hormones
- Insulin
- Glucagon
- Oxytocin
- Vassopressin
Anti-neoplastic agents
- Tamoxifen
- Fluorouracil
- Mercapturine
- Methotrexate
- Vincristine
Sedatives & hypnotics
- Benzodiazepines
- Barbiturates
- Paraldehyde
- Glutethimide
- Chloral hydrate
- Alcohols
Anaesthetics
- Local anaesthetics
- Procaine
- Lignocaine
- Eucaine
- Cocaine
- Benzocaine
- General anaesthetics
- Cyclopropane
- Halothane
- Nitrous oxide
- Chloroform
- Thiopental sodium
- Ketamine
- Methohexital
- Thioamylal
- Sodium fantanyl citrate
- Tribromo ethanol
Analgesics and antipyretics
- Paracetamol
- Salicylic acid analogues
- Quinolines
- Derivatives
- Pyrazolone and pyrazolodiones
- N- arylanthranilic acids
- Aryl and heteroaryl acetic acid derivatives