PUBLIC HEALTH PHARMACY

PHARMACOLOGY-III BP602T

UNIT -01

 

Pharmacology of drugs acting on Respiratory system: 

Anti-asthmatic drugs. 

Drugs used in the management of COPD. 

Expectorants and antitussives. 

Nasal decongestants. 

Respiratory stimulants. 

Pharmacology of drugs acting on the Gastrointestinal Tract: 

Antiulcer agents. 

Drugs for constipation and diarrhoea. 

Appetite stimulants and suppressants. 

Digestants and carminatives. 

Emetics and anti-emetics.

UNIT -02

  • Chemotherapy: General principles of chemotherapy. 
  • Sulfonamides and Cotrimoxazole. 
  • Antibiotics- Penicillins, cephalosporin, chloramphenicol, macrolides, quinolones and fluoroquinolins, tetracycline and aminoglycosides. 

UNIT -03

  • Chemotherapy: 
  • Antitubercular agents. 
  • Antileprotic agents. 
  • Antifungal agents. 
  • Antiviral drugs. 
  • Anthelmintics. 
  • Antimalarial drugs. 
  • Antiamoebic agents

UNIT -04

  • Chemotherapy: 

  • Urinary tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. 

  • Chemotherapy of malignancy. 

  • Immunopharmacology: 

  • Immunostimulants. 

  • Immunosuppressant. 

  • Protein drugs, 

  • monoclonal antibodies, target drugs to antigen, biosimilars.

UNIT -05

  • Principles of toxicology: 
  • Definition and basic knowledge of acute, sub-acute and chronic toxicity. 
  • Definition and basic knowledge of genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity and mutagenicity. 
  • General principles of treatment of poisoning. 
  • Clinical symptoms and management of barbiturates, morphine, and organophosphosphorus compound and lead, mercury and arsenic poisoning. 
  • Chronopharmacology: 
  • Definition of rhythm and cycles. 
  • Biological clock and their significance leading to chronotherapy.