PRECLINICAL DRUG STUDIES UNIT A
cod. 1000213

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmacologia (BIO/14)
Field
Discipline farmaceutiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
hub: -
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: BIOTECHNOLOGICAL DRUGS

Learning objectives

To provide knowledge of the aims and methodologies adopted for the preclinical evaluation of the toxicological profile of drugs, with particular reference to biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Safety assessment of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals:<br />
<ol>
<li>Single-dose and repeated-dose toxicity studies</li>
<li>Reproductive and developmental, genotoxicity and carcinogenicity toxicity studies</li>
<li>Safety pharmacology</li>
</ol>
Examples of preclinical studies of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Ballantyne B., Marrs T.C. General and applied toxicology. London, MacMillan (1993).<br />
Klaassen C. Casarett and Doull’s toxicology. McGraw-Hill Italia (2008).

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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