BPS 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Natural Health Product, Biopharmaceutical

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 2110
• Professor: Gabriel Guillet

Document Summary

Biopharmaceutical: the study of the properties of therapeutic substances and their dosages/bioactivity relationships. Peptides and proteins: these are not preferred because since our body is used to digesting proteins (because we are built to eat meat). The polio vaccine was made from an attenuated form of the. In rare cases it transformed inside the body and turned into the active form of the virus and started attacking the immune system, thus making the person seriously ill and in some cases causing death. So now we tend not to use attenuated vaccines as much. Instead we prefer the use of surface marker proteins and cell surface polysaccharides: some plants have a tendency to mess with your liver metabolism, natural health products (nhps) Diagnostics: camera pills (endoscopy, any type of imaging.