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PHARMACOLOGY
cod. 08720

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmacologia (BIO/14)
Field
Discipline mediche e riproduzione umana
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: TOXICOLOGY AND FOOD CONTROL

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Learning objectives

To bring mechanisms and nature of toxic effects of drugs and xenobiotics to student's knowledge.

Prerequisites

Pharmacology exam

Course unit content

<br />General part<br />·         First principles of toxicity <br />·         Mechanisms and tests of toxicity <br />·         ADME of toxic substance <br />·         Metabolism of xenobiotics <br />·         Cancerogenesis, teratogenesis and mutagenesis<br />·         Experimental toxicology and evaluation of toxicological risks. Poisons and Antidotes.<br />·         Metals, Solvents, Pesticides, IPA, PCOD, PCB <br />·         Enviromental toxicoogy <br />·         Alimentary toxicology <br />·         Occupational toxicology <br />·         Toxicology of biotecnological products

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />CASARETT & DOULL’S: "Tossicologia: fondamenti dell’azione delle sostanze tossiche", Ed. EMSI,<br />Roma.<br />GOODMAN & GILMAN’S: "The pharmacological basis of therapeutics"<br />DOLARA: "Tossicologia generale ed ambientale", Ed. Piccin, Padov<br />ERNEST HODGSON: “Tossicologia Moderna”, EdiSES<br />W.A. HAYES: "Principles and Methods of Toxicology", III Edition, Raven Press.<br />C.L. GALLI, E. CORSINI, M. MARINOVICH “Tossicologia”, Piccin

Teaching methods

The oral examination will be about the entire program. Students have to show to have a good comprension of principal parts of each topic.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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