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.

The next course is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday July 8, through Thursday, July 17, 2008  Applications will be available Starting February 1, 2008, with an application deadline of May 30, 2008. Please note: the Course is most likely to start Tuesday July 8 due to the holiday weekend.  The course does utilize early evening sessions and at least one weekend day .

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