Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.
If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.
My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.
A rise in body temperature during sulphonamide treatment intensifies the biochemical reaction between drug and pathogen, while at the same time the heat itself injures the heat-sensitive gonococci.
As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.
Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.
I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.
