OPTO 312 (Introduction to Pharmacology)

This course discusses the basic principles of pharmacology (pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics therapeutics), action of drugs on nerve transmission, biochemical and cellular sites and mechanisms of actions of drugs, drug classifications, parasympathomimetic drugs, parasympatholytic, sympathomimetics and sympatholytic, drug absorption, distribution and elimination and drug use and contraindications will all be covered in this course in two hour lectures every week for a period of ten weeks.