Experiencing organ systems pharmacology first hand: thinking beyond the cell.

摘要

The current student of pharmacology cannot help but recognize that the discipline is among the most integrative and exciting curricula in graduate school. Perhaps the most challenging obstacle facing pharmacologists is that many potential new drugs are effective in cell models but will fail when studied in the context of an animal model. Therefore, it is of crucial importance that we, as students, learn to look beyond the cell and examine therapeutics in vivo, making use of tissue and organ systems.