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CODE 111101
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR BIO/14
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching of general pharmacology is composed by two sections. The first is aimed to introduce students into the basic knowledge of the interaction between drugs and human body and its therapeutical outcomes. In particular, the teaching will focus on the capacity of the body to react to the treatment, inducing the metabolism and, ultimately the elimination of the drug. On the other hand the drug induce a physiological or structural in the body that can favor the mitigation of potentially severe symptoms of a pathology, thus helping the healing. 

In details, the following objectives will be pursued by the teaching.

-The pharmacokinetics behavior of drugs (how is absorbed, distributed, metabolized and eliminated by the body)

-The pharmacodynamic of drugs (their mechanisms of action)

-Their clinical significance (indications, contraindications, tolerance, intolerance and side effects)

The second part of the course is aimed to describe some pharmacological strategies that still represents first choice procedures in clinical emergencies; among these particular relevance will be given to the pharmacological modulation of autonomic nerve system and the control of inflammation and allergy by non steroidal antinflammatory drugs and glucocorticoids.

 

TEACHING METHODS

Teaching of general pharmacology wil be held as front lessons. 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 arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

General pharmacology: Introduction to pharmacological and clinical characteristics of drugs

Pharmacokinetic: absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of drugs

Pharmacodynamic: molecular, cellular and tissutal targets of drugs, agonism and antagonism, tolerance  and intolerance to drugs, side effects

Clinical pharmacology:

  • Pharmacology of autonomic nervous system, agonists and antagonists on sympathetic and parasympathetic system .
  • Non steroidal antinflammatory drugs; glucocorticoids.

 

 

  

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

PDF files containing the slides that have been used during the course will be availabte in the aulaweb section of unige website

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARIAPAOLA NITTI (President)

PAOLA MODESTO

STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY

VINCENZO TROVATO

CINZIA MARIA DOMENICOTTI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Lessons will start on march 

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam will be performed in form of a talk

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students will be asked to reckon the interaction between drugs and the human body and the physiological modifications that can be produced. The ability to discuss of the subjective and objective variable that can interfere with the therapeutic acticvity of drugs will be regarded as a plus in the evaluation on the exam 

FURTHER INFORMATION

To pass the course of patologia generale e tossicologia, students must pass all the sections that compose it whithin the same semester.