PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY
cod. 05135

Academic year 2008/09
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Farmacologia (BIO/14)
Field
Discipline biologiche e farmacologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
72 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

The scope of the course is to provide an advanced knowledge of the actions of the most important classes of drugs used in pharmacotherapy, their mechanism of action, their adverse side-effects and to provide an understanding of their clinical outcomes

Prerequisites

To take the examination, FISIOLOGIA GENERALE and BIOCHIMICA/BIOCHIMICA APPLICATA examinations need to be passed

Course unit content

GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY<br />
<ul>
<li>Pharmacodynamics: pharmacological targets, qualitative and quantitative analysis of drug action</li>
<li> Pharmacokinetics: Drug Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination</li>
<li> Drug safety: adverse side effects and iatrogenic toxicity</li>
<li> Drug Therapy: variability and drug interactions</li>
<li> Drug development and elements of clinical pharmacology</li>
</ul>
SYSTEMATIC PHARMACOLOGY<br />
<ul>
<li> Drugs affecting the autonomic nervous systems and neuromuscular junction</li>
<li> Drugs affecting central nervous system</li>
<li> Drugs affecting gastrointestinal function</li>
<li> Drugs affecting renal and cardiovascular function</li>
<li> Pharmacotherapy of asthma</li>
<li> Pharmacological control of hemostasis</li>
<li> Drug therapy of inflammation and immunomodulators</li>
<li> Agents affecting hormonal homeostasis</li>
<li> Chemotherapy of microbial and neoplastic diseases</li>
</ul>

Full programme

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Bibliography

“Pharmacology" RANG, DALE, RITTER & MOORE<br />
“Basic and Clinical Pharmacology” KATZUNG<br />
“The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics" GOODMAN & GILMAN’S

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