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Chemotherapeutics: Course Outline (201)

This course is designed to develop an understanding of the theoretical concepts surrounding pharmacology, such as the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs, and the concepts surrounding pharmacotherapy.

Course Outline

Antimicrobial drugs  

  • Beta-Lactam compounds
  • Other beta-Lactam drugs
  • Ttracyclines
  • Clindamycin
  • Chloramphenicol
  • Aminoglycosides
  • Antifolate drugs
  • DnaGyrase inhibitors
  • Drug used in tuberculosis
  • Drug active against atypical mycobacteriadrug used in leprosy

Antifungal drugs

  • For systematic infections
  • For mucocutaneous infections
  • Topical antifungal therapy

Antiviral drugs

  • Nucleoside &N nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors
  • Nonnucleoside
  • Reverse transcriptase inhibitors
  • Protease inhibitors
  • Entry inhibitors
  • Integrase strand transfer inhibitors
  • Treatment of hepatitis b birus infection
  • Treatment of hepatitis c infection

Antiprotozoal drugs

  • Malaria
  • Amebiasis
  • Giardia iamblia​

Anticancer drugs

  • Role of cell cycle kinetics and anticancer

Basic pharmacology of cancer chemotherapeutic drugs

  • Alkylating agent
  • Antimetabolites
  • Natural prosecutes
  • Cancer chemotherapy drugs
  • Anti-tumor drugs
  • Miscellaneous anticancer drugs

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