- Docente: Roberto Rimondini Giorgini
- Credits: 2
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)
Learning outcomes
Students complete an educational and scientific program, to the extent of its competence, knowledge and study of the mechanism of action of drugs, medicines and toxic, natural, synthetic and biotechnology products, essential to the understanding of drug therapy and effects of toxic drugs and of other substances.
Course contents
Cholinergic transmission, Noradrenergic transmission, Anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS and Glucocorticoids), Blood pressure and Hypertension, Cardiac blood flow and miocardial infarction, Cardiac output and cardiac failure, Gastrointestinal drugs (emesis and anti-emetics drugs, Diarrhoea, Constipation), Neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntinton), Anxiolitics, Antipsychotics, Antibiotics agents
Readings/Bibliography
Michelle A. Clark, Richard Finkel, Jose A. Rey, Karen Whalen “Pharmacology" 5th ediction Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Teaching methods
Plenary lectures
Assessment methods
Written examination
Teaching tools
Power point presentation. Teching material can be downloaded at amsacta.unibo.it
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Rimondini Giorgini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.