The pharmacology is the science which studies the mechanisms of interactions between a active ingredient and the organization in which it evolves/moves, in order to then be able to use these results at therapeutic ends , such as for example the development of a drug (mainly) or its improvement (inter alia). Thus, pharmacology integrates concepts and data resulting from physiology, physiopathology, biochemistry and molecular biology.

But the field of pharmacology is in fact broader, since she also studies the means of administration of the drugs, the medicamentous interactions, and the harmful effects of these drugs (side effects, side effects).

This discipline is thus strongly related on the public health (pharmacovigilance), but also to the Médecine.

Divisions of pharmacology

  • the Pharmacokinetic , which studies the kinetics of bioactive Molécule in the organization, of its absorption to its excretion while passing by its Métabolisme. In short it studies the effects of the organization on the molecule.

  • the Pharmacodynamics, which studies how a molecule produced an effect on an organization.
  • the Pharmacogénétique, which studies the influence of the Gène S on the activity of the drugs on the organization.
  • the Pharmacogénomique
  • | Repertory of pharmacology
  • the Toxicologie is interested specifically in the molecules having a harmful effect on an organization.
  • the Pharmacoépidémiologie
  • the Pharmacovigilance
  • the Pharmacognosy: science of the drugs prepared starting from natural sources, including preparations resulting from plants, organizations, minerals…

Doctors, pharmacists and scientists

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External bonds

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  • educational on opposite pharmacology: to go from gene until the comprehension of its function to invent a drug (in partnership with the Pasteur Institute)

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