Category: Pharmacology

 TOPIC: GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY  📌 KEY POINTS: 👉 PHARMACOLOGY: The interactions between the living system and various substances (drugs). 👉 A drug is a substance used for: Prevention (e.g., BCG vaccine for TB). Diagnosis (e.g., barium sulfate in X-ray imaging). Cure (e.g., INH for TB treatment). 👉 Two important Branches of pharmacology are—1. Pharmacokinetics2. Pharmacodynamics. 🔹 PHARMACOKINETICS: […]

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REVISION NOTES  📌KEY POINTS : 🔹The plasma life of a drug is the time taken for its plasma concentration to be reduced to half of its original value. 👉 Types: Alpha phase: This is due to the distribution of the drug. It is further divided into: Alpha 1 is due to the distribution of the […]

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BASIC INTRODUCTION OF PHARMACOLOGY  📌 KEY POINTS: 🔺Essential Drugs:• First Model list by WHO in 1977• First National EDL of India in 1996• Current edition of India is 17th National list of Essential Medicines. It was modified in 2011. It contains 348 drugs 🔺Uppsala Monitoring Centre (Sweden) is the international collaborating centre for Pharmacovigilance.In India […]

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PHARMACOLOGY : Pharmacology is the science dealing with drugs.(Greek: Pharmacon—drug; logos—discourse in). It deals with interaction of exogenously administered chemical molecules (drugs) with living systems, and any chemical substance which can produce a biological response is a ‘drug.’ It is divided into several branches like pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, chemotherapy and toxicology etc. Pharmacokinetics :  (body […]

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HISTORY OF PHARMACALOGY   Oswald Schmiedberg – Father of Pharmacology Col. Ramnath Chopra – Father of Indian Pharmacology Sir James Black – Father of Modern Pharmacology Clark – Gave Theory of drug action based on occupation of receptors by specific drugs. Otto Loewi – Direct proof of transmission across nerve junctions to be mediated by […]

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