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China Three Gorges University

The Secrets of Medicine

China Three Gorges University via XuetangX

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 Through the systematic study of this course, students can understand and master: What's a drug, how drugs are found and designed reasonably, the relationship between drugs and life, the action mechanism of typical drugs, how to select and use drugs scientifically.

Course features

  1. The fun of the course. The course features fascinating stories in the long history of medicine for the audience.

  2. The science popularization of the course. As a public course, it strives to popularize drug knowledge in an easy-to-understand way, so that the public can understand how to scientifically know and use drugs in their daily lives.

  3. The cutting edge of the course. This course introduces the latest advances of medicine research in the world to reveal the secrets of medicine.


Syllabus

  • Chapter 1 Drug -- the art of delivering molecules into the human body
    • 1.1 What's a drug?
  • Chapter 2 Drug discovery
    • 2.1 Tu Youyou and Artemisinin
    • 2.2 A gift of nature
    • 2.3 Pleasant surprise
    • 2.4 Painless world--Anesthetics
    • 2.5 Drugs and dyes--Starting with a splash of purple
  • Chapter 3 Drug design
    • 3.1 Rational drug design
    • 3.2 Computer Aided Drug Design
    • 3.3 Wonderful use of drug metabolism
  • Chapter 4 Drug and life
    • 4.1 Anti-gastric ulcer drugs
    • 4.2 Anti-Cancer Pioneer
    • 4.3 Give me a glass of soothing water
    • 4.4 Rapamycin--A legend from Easter Island
    • 4.5 Nobel and Nitroglycerin
    • 4.6 Anti-cancer new era
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    Taught by

    Luo Huajun

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