BIOC 150A Principles of Pharmacology and Toxicology I

Part one of a three-quarter sequence. Presents the basic principles of pharmacology and toxicology, beginning with the concepts governing both the environmental fate and biological actions of bioactive chemicals. Included are physicochemical properties, environmental transport and reaction mechanisms, dose-response relationships, chemical-receptor dynamics, disposition kinetics, biotransformation, and metabolic induction and inhibition.