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B.  Objectives 

1.  Summary of the main learning outcomes for students enrolled in the course. 
By the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Identify and quantitatively estimation of Alkaloids.
• Identify and quantitatively estimation of Glycosides.
• Recognize the medicinal importance of Glycosides and Alkaloids.
• Recognize recently discovered alkaloids with unique anticancer effect.
•  Estimate the medicinally important marine natural products.
• Estimate Plant toxicity and how to treat it.
• Estimate Herb-drug interaction

 

2.  Briefly describe any plans for developing and improving the course that are being implemented.  (eg increased use of IT or web based reference material,  changes in content as a result of new research in the field)
 

• Discussion about the most widely used natural products.
• Update the course information on regular bases through using electronic data bases and recent literature.
• Concentration on the recent trends in Alkaloids and glycosides chemistry and biology.
• Pay more attention to recent drugs discovered from sea.
• Recent approaches in Drug Discovery from nature.
• Regular meeting between staff members teaching the course to update the course contents.
• Survey on some pharmaceutical products containing alkaloids and glycosides
• New approach  interaction between herbs and medicinally used drugs