Unit PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOTHERAPY II
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A000527
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Francesca Fallarino
- Teachers
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- Francesca Fallarino
- Hours
- 70 ore - Francesca Fallarino
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2020/21
- 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
- Principles of pharmacotherapy with main focus on advanced therapies, biodrugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, drugs acting on metabolism, the cardiovascular system, depression, anxiety, and neurodegenerative disorders
- Reference texts
- Waller, Renwick, Hillier "Farmacologia medica ed elementi di terapia" Elsevier
- Educational objectives
- Knowledge of principles of Pharmacotherapy, with particular reference to chemoterapeutic, anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular, metabolic, anti-depression, ansiolytic, neurodegenerative diseases drugs and biodrugs, such as monoclonal antibodies. The student will also acquire the capacity to afford additional therapeutic classes of drugs not discussed in the present course.
- Prerequisites
- Aver superato l'esame di Farmacologia, Farmacognosia e Tossicologia Generale
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face theoretical lessons
- Other information
- On line teaching platforms.
- Learning verification modality
- written exam, multiple choise.
- Extended program
- General principles of pharmacotherapy. ADR. Immunotoxicity and drug allergy. Pharmacology of monoclonal antibodies. Vaccines. Antibacterial, and antiviral chemotherapy: general principles and main drug families. Physiopathology of inflammation. Nonsteroidal and steroidal antiinflammatory drugs. Therapy of rheumatoid arthritis. Pharmacology of diabetes mellitus and obesity.
Principles of neurotransmission in the peripheral and central nervous systems. Pharmacology of the cardiovascular system. Anti-hypertensive drugs. Diuretics.
Therapy of gastric ulcer. Pharmacology of pain and principal classes of pain blockers. Pharmacology of depression and anxiety. Anti-epilectics drugs. Pharmacology of schizophrenia.
Pharmacotherapy of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Drug tolerance and dependence.