Course Summary

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy presents "An Integrative and Organ Systems Pharmacology Short Course" held in Chapel Hill, NC. The course consists of a two-week intensive experience. The course emphasizes routine rodent procedures (gavage, injection, cannulation), isolated organ systems (liver, kidney, intestine, brain) and neuropharmacology (antinociception, seizure threshold, brain microdialysis), and include lectures, demonstrations and an abundance of hands-on laboratory exercises designed to give participants significant hands-on experience with the effect of drugs on organ systems and intact conscious animal models. These models will include mainly mice and rats along with some introduction to higher animal models (dogs, pig, and nonhuman primates). The instruction will be provided by faculty from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Long Island University, and Wake Forest University.

This years course has been postponed.  The course is tentatively re-scheduled for December 2009 or January 2010.  Please check back later for official dates.

 

 

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