SL12122: Fundamentals of pharmacology: health and disease for Natural Sciences
[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | EXCB 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of the unit, you will be able to:
- Define health and illness and the physiological concept of homeostasis.
- Explain the principles of the molecular basis of drug action within living systems at a molecular and cellular level (pharmacology).
- Employ the relevant pharmacological calculations to determine the potency of agonist and antagonist drug action.
- Describe the structure and function of the major organs and systems of the human body.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how the function of major organs and systems is integrated and regulated in normal healthy physiology.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how these functions can become dysregulated in disease.
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| Synopsis: | In this unit you will:
- Explore the concepts of drug action within living systems.
- Advance your knowledge of how the function of major organs and systems is integrated and regulated in normal healthy physiology.
- Discuss the basis for the study of the pharmacology of these systems relevant to disease.
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| Content: | Introduction to pharmacology & receptor theory
Physiological and disease states associated with the major organs and systems
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| Course availability: |
SL12122 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Chemistry
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry and Chemistry) (Year 1)
- USSC-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry and Chemistry) with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- USSC-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry and Chemistry) with professional placement (Year 1)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) (Year 1)
- USSC-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- USSC-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) with professional placement (Year 1)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry and Chemistry) (Year 1)
- USSC-AKM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry and Chemistry) with professional placement (Year 1)
- USSC-AKM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry with Chemistry stream) with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) (Year 1)
- USSC-AKM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) with Study year abroad (Year 1)
- USSC-AKM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) with professional placement (Year 1)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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