Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of drug action; it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormall

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.

• Clinical pharmacology Neuropharmacology
• Psychopharmacology
• Cardiovascularpharmacology
• Pharmacogenetics
• System pharmacology
• Pharmacogenomics
• Pharmacoepidemiology