UnderGraduate Courses
The Laboratory of Pharmacology and its Staff faculty members (one full professor, one associate professor, one assistant professor and two instructors (lectures)) all are obligated to provide high quality teaching to students of Pharmacy in the following disciplines: Basic Pharmacology, Toxicology, Applied Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Introduction to Biotechnology as well as Clinical Pharmacokinetics.
Pharmacology I (Fall semester course, Third year)
Introduction to drug-receptors interactions, pharmacogenetics, pharmacokinetics, autonomic
system pharmacology, cholinergic stimulants and antagonists, adrenergic agonists and antagonists,
antihypertensive agents, diuretics, cardiac glycosides, anti-arrhythmic drugs, histamine and anti-
histamine drugs, local anesthetics, hormones, insulin, vitamins and drugs used against
hyperlipoproteinemia.
Pharmacology II (Spring semester course, Third year)
Introduction to CNS pharmacology, drugs against Parkinsonism, general anesthetics,
antiepileptics,antidepressants, sedatives, alcohols, opiate analgesics, drugs of abuse, non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs, non-opiate analgesics, anemias, iron þ vitamin B12 þ folic acid
pharmacology, chemotherapy of bacterial infectious, immunosuppressives, cytokines, vaccines,
immune globulins, blood coagulation, antiviral chemotherapy and cancer chemotherapy.
Toxicology (Fall semester course, Fourth year)
Introduction to Toxicology, toxicity testing, toxicokinetics, metabolism of xenobiotics,
carcinogenesis-mutagenesis-teratogenesis, mechanism of systematic toxicity on various tissues and
organs (CNS-lungs-heart-kidney-liver-blood-skin), plant - animal toxins, emergency treatment of
poisoning, environmental toxicology, toxicity of organic solvents, adverse effects (toxicity) of
drugs and clinical toxicology.
Introduction to Biotechnology (Spring semester course, Fourth year)
Introduction to basic mechanism(s) in procaryotes and animal cells, restriction analysis and
gene mapping, development of recombinant DNA, cloning technology and cloning-expression
vectors, production of recombinant peptides from GMOs, secondary metabolites, hybridomas
technology, enzyme engineering, bioreactors, immobilized cells, PCR technology, plant
engineering, transgenic
plants and animals.
Applied Therapeutics of Pharmacology (Spring semester course, Fourth year)
Coughs and colds, asthma, upper respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections,
hypertension, congestive hear failure, gastrointestinal, rheumatic - renal diseases, hepatitis,
headaches, endocrine disorders, diabetes, sexually transmitted diseases, meningitis and
tuberculosis.
Clinical Pharmacokinetics (Spring semester course, Fourth year)
Basic considerations (absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination of drugs),
intravenous and extravascular administration, multiple-dose regimens, drug-drug interactions,
individualization, stereoselectivity in pharmacokinetics, protein binding of drugs, liver and renal
function and drug disposition, pharmacokinetic considerations in pregnancy, children and elderly,
diet and drug disposition.