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This article is about the science. For the book type ("a pharmacology"), see Materia medica. For the journal, see Pharmacology (journal). Pharmacology Diagrammatic representation of organ bath used for studying the effect of isolated tissues MeSH Unique ID D010600 A variety of topics involved with pharmacology, including neuropharmacology, renal pharmacology, human metabolism, intracellular metabolism, and intracellular regulation Pharmacology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of drug action, [1] where a drug can be broadly defined as any man-made, natural, or endogenous (from within body) molecule which exerts a biochemical or physiological effect on the cell, tissue, organ, or organism (sometimes the word pharmacon is used as a term to encompass these endogenous and exogenous bioactive species). More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that affect normal or abnormal biochemical function. If s...