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MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY
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MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- BIO0192 Pds GEN
- Teacher
- Ilaria Bertocchi (Lecturer)
- Degree course
- [0101M22] Molecular Biotechnology
- Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Elective
- Credits/Recognition
- 2
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- BIO/14 - pharmacology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Quiz
- Propedeutic for
- The course aims to provide the students with all the basic knowledge to comprehend master essential notions in pharmacology, with the goal to help the students for future related studies.
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
To know the basic principles of general pharmacology and understand the mechanisms of action of drugs
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Results of learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student must have essential notions of general pharmacology, in particular, they must distinguish pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and acquire the main concepts in a solid way. This will allow the student to better address and understand many of the topics addressed in other courses during the year
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Program
Introduction to pharmacology:
- Principal aspects of pharmacokinetics (physiological barriers, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and clinical implications (drug clearance, half-life, therapeutic efficacy and frequency of administration)
- Characteristics of drug-receptor interaction
- Principal classes of receptors (targets). Therapeutic response and side effects
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Course delivery
Frontal or online lessons, given that most of the sudent will not attend the frontal lessons, all the material will be upoloaded on moodle.
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Learning assessment methods
The exam consists in a written questionnaire, with 8 multiple choices questions and 4 true or false, with a maximum of 32 points (30 cum laude)
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- General and Molecular Pharmacology: Principles of Drug Action
- Year of publication:
- 2015
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Author:
- Francesco Clementi, Guido Fumagalli
- Required:
- No
- Enroll
- Closed
- Enrollment opening date
- 01/10/2023 at 00:00
- Enrollment closing date
- 07/01/2024 at 23:55
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