General Pharmacology

Abstract

Pharmacology is the science about interaction between drugs and human organism. Pharmacology is divided into general and special pharmacology. General pharmacology studies the general laws of drug interaction with human organism. Special pharmacology studies the pharmacological groups of drugs and individual drugs. Both general and special pharmacology are divided into pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics is the section of pharmacology which studies the influence of human body upon drugs (absorption, distribution, deposition, biotransformation, and excretion from the body). Pharmacodynamics is the section of pharmacology which studies the action of drugs upon the human organism (biological effects, localization, and mechanism of action)