Pharmacology · Module 2 · Pharmacodynamics

Pharmacodynamics Lab

Turn receptors on and off, watch the dose-response curve move, find the safety margin, work through nursing cases, and sort drugs by how they act. Nothing here is graded.

Part 1: Receptor Bench

Full agonist Partial agonist Antagonist Receptor Receptor switched on Agonist alone, normal receptors (dashed)

A teaching model with made-up relative units, not real doses. Binding is shown as a snapshot that keeps shuffling, because real drug molecules bind and let go many times a second. Cells often have spare receptors, so the response can be bigger than the share of receptors filled.