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PHARMACOLOGY
Course unit partition: PARMA

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course -
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmacologia (BIO/14)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Caratterizzante
15 hours
of face-to-face activities
1.5 credits
hub: PARMA
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Course unit partition: Pharmacology

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Learning objectives

To provide the students with a basic knowledge of drug pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicity

Prerequisites

To have passed the following exams: histology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology and general pathology, general and clinical pathology

Course unit content

<br />Drug regulation and development<br />General principles of pharmacokinetics. Drug formulations. <br />Routes of administrations of drugs<br />Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs<br />Drug Bioavailability <br />Drug pharmacokinetics during pregnancy. Pediatric and geriatric pharmacology<br />Pharmacodynamics: mechanisms of drug action Receptors<br />Drug toxicity. Pharmacogenetics. Allergy<br />Factors which modify drug effects<br />Drug-drug interactions<br />Drug accumulation. Monitoring<br />Principles of phytotherapy

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />1. Katzung BG: Basic & Clinical Pharmacology.  9° ed.  McGraw-Hill, 2004<br />2. Lullman H & Mohr K: Taschenatlas der Pharmakologie.  George Thieme Verlag, 2001<br />3. Amico-Roxas M, Caputi A, Del Tacca M. Compendio di farmacologia generale e speciale.2005

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