95822 - Pharmacology Nutrition

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Human Nutrition, Well-Being And Health (cod. 5812)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student: - has an adequate knowledge of the interactions between drug and organism that determine its therapeutic and toxic effects; - knows the mechanisms of action and the therapeutic profile of the drugs used in neurological disorders, cardiovascular and renal diseases, and inflammation; - knows the main factors of drug response variability and the main mechanisms and effects of drug/food/food supplement interactions.

 

Course contents

Introduction to Pharmacology 

Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics

Variability in drug respons

Nervous system Pharmacology

Cardiovascular and Renal Pharmacology

Inflammation Pharmacology

Drug/Food/Food Supplement Interactions

Introduction to Pharmacovigilance

Readings/Bibliography

ROSSI F., V. CUOMO, C. RICCARDI (a cura di) "Farmacologia. Principi di base e applicazioni terapeutiche", IV ed., Torino, Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2019

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written test

Teaching tools

PC

Slides

Overhead projector

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Tarozzi

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.