Early Reflections on Graduate School and Life in New Orleans
My experiences so far in the Masters of Pharmacology program here at Tulane have been great. While the subject material comes at us quickly and at a large quantity, our professors are always looking out for our best interests and give us every opportunity to do well. The coursework itself has been interesting, engaging and something that I do not dread having to learn. In particular, I was very interested by our first module when learning about the Cytochrome P-450 metabolism system that humans have predominantly in their liver. I have always seen the 'drug interaction' labels on various pharmaceutical products but had no idea the mechanism by which this happens. Finding out that one family of enzymes is responsible for the majority of these interactions, the drugs that will cause induction (increased activity) or inhibition of those enzymes and how to mitigate these problems has been informative and a lot of fun. Learning material which has an obvious clinical application is