| CODE | CPH5401 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Fundamentals of Pharmacotoxicology: Principles, Classification and Toxicokinetics | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will provide the background, history, tasks and scope for the study of pharmacotoxicology. This study-unit will also explain relevant aspects of the toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of their actions. It will include a discussion on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of pharmacokinetic (LADME) processes in toxicity; drug safety in drug development; the principles of the exposure assessment, and the role of lab analysis in toxicology. Study-unit Aims: - To appreciate importance of principles of pharmacotoxicology as a discipline in various sectors; - To provide basic toxicological principles, classification and concepts; - To characterise the mechanisms of the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of xenobiotics and toxicants; - To appreciate the role of toxicology in drug development and drug safety; - To explore the role of analytical toxicology and screening in the management of pharmacotoxicology incidents. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Appreciate basic toxicological principles, classification and concepts; - Explain the role of toxicokinetics; - Critically appraise relevant aspects of current approaches to drug development and drug safety; - Describe the classification of poisons and toxins; - Define the principles of toxicokinetics, dose-response relationships and modulation of adverse effects with particular emphasis of these factors in drug development; - To appreciate the role of analytical toxicology and screening and of the laboratory in dealing with toxicology incidents. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Explain various terms, principles and definitions used in pharmacotoxicology; - Interpret the role of LADME and toxicokinetics as related to the specific mechanisms of toxic action; - Apply this knowledge in drug development and drug safety; - Link pharmatoxicological information and apply pharmatoxicological principles in drug dosage relationships; - Interpret results of lab toxicological analysis in the management of patients. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main readings - Lewis Nelson, Robert Hoffman,Mary Ann Howland, Neal Lewin), Lewis Goldfrank, Silas W Smith Goldfrank's toxicologic emergencies. 11th edition New York McGraw Hill Medical 2019 ISBN 978-1259859618 (Health Sciences Library Reference RA1224.5 .G6 2019 ) - Curtis Klaassen, John Watkins. Casarett & Doull's Essentials of Toxicology, Third Edition. 2015. McGraw Hill ISBN 978-0071847087 - Lindsay Murray MBBS FACEM, Mark Little MBBS FACEM MPH&TM DTM&H IDHA, Ovidiu Pascu MD FACEM, Kerry Anne Hoggett MBBS GCertClinTox FACEM. Toxicology Handbook 2015 Churchill Livingston ISBN 978-0729542241(Health Sciences library RA1215 .T683 2015) Supplementary readings - Klaassen, Curtis D. Casarett and Doull's toxicology: the basic science of poisons. 9th edition New York McGraw-Hill Education 2019 ISBN 978-1-259-86374-5 - Yvonne Will, J. Eric McDuffie, Andrew J. Olaharski, Brandon D. Jeffy Drug Discovery Toxicology From Target Assessment to Translational Biomarkers 2016 Wiley ISBN 978-1119053330 - Kareen E Stine Thomas M Brown Principles of Toxicology 2015 CRS Press ISBN 9781466503427 (main library RA1211.S75 2015) - Abby Calvin Textbook of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 2016 Syraword Publishing House ISBN 978-1682861912. Journals (available in Main Library and Health Sciences Library and as e-journals subscribed by UM) Toxicology Pharmacology & toxicology Clinical toxicology Journal of toxicology Comments on toxicology Archives of toxicology International journal of toxicology Critical reviews in toxicology Toxicology mechanisms and methods Toxicology and applied pharmacology. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jeffrey Bonnici Robert Chircop Melissa Marie Formosa Janet Mifsud (Co-ord.) Godwin Sammut Joanna Vella Mark Zammit |
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