Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Pharmacology deals with the study of drug action, drug interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function. The two main areas of pharmacology are pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Pharmacodynamics studies the effects of a drug on biological systems and Pharmacokinetics studies the effects of biological systems on a drug. In broad terms, pharmacodynamics discusses the chemicals with biological receptors, and pharmacokinetics discusses the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) of chemicals from the biological systems. The divisions include:
- Clinical pharmacology
- Neuropharmacology
- Psychopharmacology
- Cardiovascularpharmacology
- Pharmacogenetics
- System pharmacology
- Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Pharmacovigilance
- Toxicological studies