Unit GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOGNOSY
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- 65903806
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Teresa Pallotta
- Teachers
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- Maria Teresa Pallotta
- Hours
- 42 ore - Maria Teresa Pallotta
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline biologiche e farmacologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/14
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General principles of Pharmacology. Pharmacodynamics: drug receptors and receptors / mechanisms.
- Reference texts
- R. Paoletti, S. Nicosia, F Clementi, G. Fumagalli
Farmacologia generale e molecolare, UTET, Torino
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R. Paoletti, S. Nicosia, F Clementi, G. Fumagalli
Farmacologia clinica, UTET, Torino - Educational objectives
- The course of Pharmacotherapy I, is the first of three teachings concerning Pharmacology. The main goal of education is to provide to the students the pharmacological basis for the understanding of the other two teachings, represented by Pharmacotherapy II and Toxicology. The Pharmacotherapy I is the study of the fundamentals of drug action that evaluates the relationship between body and drug, and analyzes the general mechanisms of interaction between the two systems. All the drugs share some general principles that are independent of the nature of the effect and which are common to all. The main knowledge gained will be related to:
1) Receptors and theories of receptor activation
2) mechanisms of drug action and signal transduction pathways. - Prerequisites
- The student who is going to the course Pharmacotherapy I must have successfully passed the exams of General and Applied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that are very important for understanding the contents of the course of Pharmacology and the general objectives of learning. It would also be very useful that the student had successfully passed the exam in General physiology, which would allow him to easily understand the path of a drug in the body. The knowledge of these topics is indispensable for the student who wants to follow the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face teaching
- Other information
- Compulsory course attendance
- Learning verification modality
- multiple choise exsam
- Extended program
- General pharmacodynamics: targets and mechanisms of drug action; receptors, classification of mebrane receptors, intracellular receptors, dose-response curve; agonists, partial agonists, antagonists; individual variations (effects of age, pathological states, drug interactions, tolerance, placebo effects). General toxicity: side-effects, overdose, idiosyncratic and allergic reactions; teratogenesis and foetal toxicity; carcinogenesis; drug dependency