Module overview
Lectures will be accompanied by practicals, some of which involve the use of animal tissue, with alternatives in place if required to meet minimum learning outcomes.
Linked modules
BIOL1024 and BIOL1025 and (BIOL1026 or BIOL1028)
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Outline key principles pharmacogenomics to explain how the genome impacts the way in which drugs interact with biological systems
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Describe the mechanisms of action of drugs with distinct mode of actions that modify autonomic nervous system.
- Explain how drugs enter the body/tissues and some of the mechanisms responsible for their subsequent removal.
- Give examples of drugs that act on the neuromuscular junction and describe their mode of action.
- Describe the ways in which selective drugs interact with the distinct classes of receptors mediating the action of the neurotransmitters histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine
- Describe the basic mechanism of drug receptor interactions and the quantitative analysis of these interactions. This will include applying the law of mass action and drug receptor interactions and its use to obtain quantitative estimates of agonist and antagonists binding
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Extract primary data for description and discussion in the style of a scientific publication. Utilising observations made by drugs with distinct modes of action.
Syllabus
Pharmcodynamics
Pharmacokinetics
Receptor structure function
Pharmacology interactions in key body systems.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, lab based practicals, class and paper based calculations and scientific report writing.
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 60 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 20 |
| Completion of assessment task | 15 |
| Revision | 35 |
| Lecture | 20 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Literature and data search
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: Yes
Class practicals
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Class Exercise
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Laboratory Assignment
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Class Exercise
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback:
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Coursework and lab reports | 50% |
| Assessment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Assessment | 100% |