PHARMACOLOGY
cod. 00351

Academic year 2008/09
0° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmacologia (BIO/14)
Field
Discipline biologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
80 hours
of face-to-face activities
8 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

To provide students with a substantive knowledge of the actions and uses of the most important drugs and furnish an understanding of their therapeutic outcomes.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

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GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY<br />
– Drug targets, mechanisms of drug action and basic pharmacokinetics<br />
– Drug-drug interactions, food-drug interactions and drug safety <br />
– Drug development and basic clinical testing<br />
SYSTEMATIC PHARMACOLOGY<br />
– Drugs affecting the autonomic nervous systems and neuromuscular junction<br />
– Drugs affecting central nervous system <br />
– Drugs affecting gastrointestinal function <br />
– Drugs affecting renal and cardiovascular function<br />
– Pharmacotherapy of asthma <br />
– Pharmacological control of haemostasis <br />
– Drug therapy of inflammation and immunomodulators <br />
– Agents affecting hormonal homeostasis <br />
– Chemotherapy of microbial and neoplastic diseases <br />
 

Full programme

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Bibliography

HOWLAND & MYCEK "La basi della farmacologia", Zanichelli, Bologna

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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