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CODE 84024
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR BIO/10
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

Nutritional Biochemistry studies the molecular mechanisms controlling the intermediate metabolism and its correlations between energetic and thermodynamic variations depending by diet and substrate availability  

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

The principal learning outcome is connecting tle specific components of diet with the totality of biological processes taking  place in differenti states as well as well-fed, starvation, lactation or the principal methabolic diseases as dyabete, hypertension, methabolic diseases

TEACHING METHODS

Plenary Lectures covering the entire program of the course.

 

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Methabolic interrelationships. a: adattamenti metabolici in condizioni fisiologiche e patologiche

Regolazione ormonale

Regolazione della glicemia

Trasporto e utilizzo lipidi. Ruolo colesterolo in fenomeni fisiologici e patologici 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Materials published in Aula Web

Texbook:

Ferrier et al: La base della BIochimica ed Zanichelli

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARIA PAOLA IERARDI (President)

FEDERICA BARBIERI

MAURIZIO BRUSCHI

SUSANNA PENCO

LAURA STURLA

ILARIA DEMORI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

10 October 2017

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Exam evaluation will take into account knowledge, presentation/speaking skills, as well as the ability in connecting the different arguments

The assessment takes place only through the final exam which aims to ensure the effective acquisition by the student of the expected learning outcomes.

In order to pass the exam (vote of not less than 18/30 in all scientific disciplinaries of the course) the student must demonstrate that:

- Know the principal topics

- Be able to reason by connecting the various topics,

- Demonstrate ability to transverse and critically deal with the required arguments;

- Adoption of appropriate terminology.