CHM 4520 Medicinal Chemistry

Credit Hours: 3

Studies the chemical nature of physiological mediators, the hormones that mediate life processes. Includes isolation, structure determination and synthesis of the mediators. Preparation of inhibitors or activators of enzymes that work on those mediators or agonists or antagonists to the mediators to correct imbalances that cause disease. Meets with CHM 5520.
Prerequisite: CHM 2002, CHM 3001