- Docente: Roberto Rimondini Giorgini
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biotechnologies (cod. 0090)
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes will be: a) basic knowledge about drug metabolism (administration, clearance, therapeutics, adverse effects)
Course contents
GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY. General pharmacokinetics: movement of drugs across cell membranes; routes of administration and absorption; bioavailability; distribution of drugs in the body; volume of distribution, binding to plasma proteins; drug metabolism; excretion; time-course of drug plasmatic contents (after single or repeated administration). General pharmacodynamics: targets and mechanisms of drug action; 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. Clinical evaluation.
Readings/Bibliography
Testi consigliati:
a) Clementi – Fumagalli. “Farmacologia generale e molecolare”, 3°
Ed. Torino, UTET 2004.
b) H. P. Rang; M. M. Dale; J.M.Ritter; P. K. Moore “Farmacologia
III ed.“ Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
c) R. D. Howland, M. J. Mycek "Le basi della farmacologia" ed.
Zanichelli
Teaching methods
Plenary lecture
Assessment methods
Oral assessment
Teaching tools
Power point presentation
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Rimondini Giorgini