PHARMACOLOGY Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pharmacology, Diphenoxylate, Nicotine
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Study of substances that interact with living systems through chemical process. Interactions occur by binding of substance to body"s regulatory molecules and activate or inhibit normal body process. Chemicals that act on living systems at the chemical (molecular) level. Pharmacology deals with study of drugs and action of drugs on living systems. Medical pharmacology science of substances used to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. Toxicology branch of pharmacology that deals with the undesirable e ects of chemicals on living systems. Pharmacokinetics action of the body to the absorption, distribution and elimination (excretion or metabolism) of drugs. What the body does to the drugs. Pharmacodynamics action of the drug on the body, including receptor interactions, dose-response phenomena, and mechanisms of therapeutic and toxic action. - what the drug does to the body. Drug invention became more allied with synthetic organic chemistry. Dyes, by de nition, are colored compounds with selective a nity for biological.