Education for toxicologists via internet

The Internet offers a wide range of online digital resources for the field of Toxicology. The history of toxicology and electronic data collections are reviewed. This review presents a brief and non-comprehensive overview of a representative sampling of some of the broad array of toxicology-related learning, tutorial and information resources now becoming widely available to educators, health professionals, students and the general public via the Internet. A broad variety of useful learning and reference resources in the general fields of toxicology and the environmental health sciences is provided to introduce the reader to the diverse types of information currently available. Distance education and educational media resources are also available online in the field of toxicology. As molecular biology and computational tools improve, new areas within toxicology such as structural activity relationship analysis, mutational spectra databases and toxicogenomics, now have resources online as well. The sources and Internet links contained in this review will hopefully constitute a useful resource of basic toxicology information that should be readily accessible to most if not all Iranian readers

low cost model to facilitate students' understanding of electron transfer chain in toxicology lab

Mitochondrial respiration is a complex process which its biochemistry is often poorly understood by undergraduate students when explained in toxicology lectures. The use of experiments to reinforce their knowledge is important, but not always possible because of low teaching budgets. Therefore, a low cost model, made using water, oil, styrofoam and modeling clay, is presented here to simulate the transduction membrane, and the complexes embedded in it. Using this model, students can represent and understand electron flow and proton translocation, the chemiosmotic hypothesis and the effects of inhibitors and uncouplers. Students that have used this model enjoyed studying mitochondrial respiration and learned and understood the biochemistry of transduction membranes as well as lipid and protein interactions, and were well motivated to study the phenomenon in depth by themselves

suggested course detailing pharmaceutical biotechnology suitable for inclusion in undergraduate Pharmacy program in Iran

A 51 hour [3 credit] lecture course entitled pharmaceutical biotechnology is outlined which details the biochemistry and biotechnology of biological drug products. It is designed to equip students undertaking Pharmacy program with an understanding of concepts, both academic and applied, directly relevant to working in the biotechnological products sector. In addition to the course, a bank of relevant resource material is provided