I have applied for GPAT Entrance Exam today. Now I am collecting study material for Pharmacology Subject of this Exam. I need important notes of all topics of Pharmacology subject. So tell me can I get following important notes from the official website of GPAT?

Don’t worry I will get the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT), Pharmacology section list of important topics so that you can check them easily.

Here are some topics

a. Anti-diabetic drugs
b. Anti-cancer drugs
c. Anti-hyperlidemic drugs
d. Anti-adrenergic drugs
e. Anti-arrhythmic drugs
f. Prostaglandins
g. NSAIDs
h. Diuretics
i. Antipsychotics
j. Anti-epileptics
k. Anti-depressants
l. Anti-platelet drugs
m. Opioids receptors

Other important topics

Pharmaceutics
1. Physical Pharmacy: Must do topic for GPAT (5 to 6 questions)
2. Microbiology
a) Stains and types of staining techniques,
b) Rideal walker,
c) Chick martin test,
d) Antibiotic assay organisms,
e) Source of antibiotics,
f) Nutrition, cultivation, isolation of bacteria,
g) Sterilization methods, Organisms used for testing and uses
3. Biotechnology:
a) Antibodies types, their structures,
b) Types of hypersensitivity reactions,
c) Vaccines (remember which vaccines are killed, attenuated etc)
4. Forensic:
a) Schedules
b) Forms
c) Acts and their years
d) Organisation and their members
5. Unit Operation: Just basic information from these chapter including principles, uses and advantages of equipment.
a) Fluid Flow
b) Heat transfer
c) Evaporation
d) Distillation
e) Drying
f) Size Reduction
g) Mixing
h) Filtration and Centrifugation
i) Crystallization
j) Dehumidification and Humidity Control
k) Corrosion
6. Pharmaceutical technology:
a) Tablets, capsules and Aerosols (Most important chapters),
b) Suspension and emulsion (Suspending agents, Emulsifying agents, o/w n w/o emulsion and preparation methods),
c) Suppositories and semisolids (Bases only),
d) Microencapsulation (size ranges only),
7. Numericals:
a) Allegation,
b) Tonicity adjustment,
c) Displacement value,
d) Dose adjustments,
e) Alcohol over-proof and under-proof
8. Cosmetics (not in detail) : Nail polish film formers, lipstick constituents, examples
9. Pharmacokinetics: Basic numerical only, bioavailability
10. Parenteral:
a) Pyrogen testing,
b) Routes of injections.
c) Glass types and tests,
d) Rubber components,

Pharmacognosy
1. Plant tissue cultures,
2. Metabolic Pathway,
3. Marine Pharmacognosy,
4. Phytochemical screening of drugs
5. Analytical Pharmacognosy i.e. types of stomata, trichomes, ash values, lycopodium spore method etc
6. Classification of glycosides, alkaloids, tannin etc
7. Biological sources and constituent of drugs
8. Detailed study of- Senna, digitalis, aloe, opium, cinchona, ipecac, liquorice, ginseng, rhubarb, clove, fennel, dill, cinnamon

Pharmaceutical chemistry
1. Organic chemistry
a) Name Reactions (Aldol, cannizaro and claisen are most important ones)
b) Basic reaction mechanism ( SN1, SN2, E1and E2)
c) Stereochemistry
d) Rules like markonikov rule, Sytzeff rule
e) Stability order and reactivity orders

2. Pharmaceutical Analysis
a) Spectroscopy (Most Important)
b) Chromatography
c) Precipitation titrations

3. Inorganic Chemistry
a) Inorganic radiopharmaceuticals
b) Limit test
c) Acid-Base concepts
d) Buffer concept
e) Antacids

4. Physical Chemistry
a) Colligative properties
b) Electrolytes (effect of dilutions)

5. Biochemistry
a) Enzymes and co-enzymes
b) Amino acids

6. Medicinal chemistry
a) SAR (ANS, benzodiazpines and barbiturates important)
b) Isosterism
c) Prototype moieties of molecules
d) Starting synthesis material (markers synthesis important)
e) Steroid structure and geometry important