The object of the course is to teach students an approach to the study of pharmacologic agents. It is not intended to be a review of the pharmacopoeia. The focus is on the basic principles of biophysics, biochemistry, and physiology as to the mechanisms of drug action, biodistribution and metabolis...
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
HST.151: Principles of Pharmocology
Instructor: Prof. David Standaert
Anticonvulsants
David G. Standaert, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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