Department of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
Department of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
The Department commenced as the composite Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in 1956 in the Veterinary College. In 1971 this composite department was bifurcated into Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Department of Therapeutics (Clinical Medicine). Ever since its inception the department is active in teaching, research and extension activities. Post graduation programme (MVSc) was started in 1967 and PhD in 1993.
Thesis profile
The thesis submitted as part of the PG and PhD programme under the Department amounts to 50 nos and covers areas like Toxicology, ethnopharmacology, aneasthetics and their reversing agents.
Research on Toxicology includes effects of insecticides, OP compounds and dicofol in birds and mammals; effect of different drugs in cobra venom intoxication; study on effect of fluorine, mercury, cadmium, DDT and endosulfan in cattle of Eloor industrial area and toxicity of Mimosa invisa in rabbits with identification of toxic fractions.
Courses offered :
UG Courses
PG courses
PhD
Department of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
Camp Office,
Office of the Directorate of Dairy Development
Pattom,
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala
India
Other Departments at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), Thiruvananthapuram
- Department of Animal Breeding, Genetics & Biostatistics
- Department of Animal Nutrition
- Department of Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology & Obstetrics
- Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine
- Department of Dairy Business Management
- Department of Dairy Chemistry
- Department of Dairy Engineering
- Department of Dairy Husbandry
- Department of Dairy Microbiology
- Department of Dairy Plant
- Department of Dairy Science
- Department of Dairy Technology
- Department of Instrumentation Centre
- Department of Livestock Production & Management
- Department of Livestock Products Technology
- Department of Poultry Science
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension
- Department of Veterinary Anatomy & Histology
- Department of Veterinary Biochemistry
- Department of Veterinary Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology
- Department of Veterinary Nutrition
- Department of Veterinary Parasitology
- Department of Veterinary Pathology
- Department of Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Department of Veterinary Physiology
- Department of Veterinary Public Health
- Department of Veterinary Surgery & Radiology
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