Course Description
This course will introduce students to the essential concepts and principles of pharmacology. It includes descriptions of type of receptor, agonist and antagonist activities, analysis of agonist-effect relationships and the intracellular signaling pathways and transcriptional regulation at molecular level by which endogenous and exogenously applied compounds elicit effects. Also, this course will introduce some new research strategies recently developed in pharmacology such as systems pharmacology, network pharmacology. Lastly, this course will emphasize the hot topics of biology such as autophagy, hormesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, etc., which could be integrated into pharmacological study of Chinese medicine research.
Pre-requisite: none
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Master the basic concepts and principles of pharmacology.
CILO-2: Describe the classic theories of drug action and the underlying mechanisms.
CILO-3: Outline the up-to-date concepts and progress of pharmacology.
CILO-4: Integrate new technologies into their research and future career plan.