- Docente: Francesca Maffei
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities (cod. 8037)
Course contents
General principles of Pharmacology
Routes of administration of drugs. Pharmacokinetics: the dynamics
of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination.
Bioavailability of drugs. Pharmacokinetic parameters.
Pharmacodynamics: mechanisms of drug action. Drug effects. Drug
receptor interaction.
Drugs and sport activities
Drug effects and physical exercies. Therapeutic treatment of
injured athlete: correct use of drugs. Relationsipp between
efficacy and toxicity of drugs.
Drugs and sport performance. Drug abuse and doping. Substances and
methods prohibited list: Stimulants, Narcotics, Cannabinoids,
Anabolic Agents, Hormones, Beta-2-Agonists, Alcohol, Diuretics,
Glucocorticosteroids, Beta-Blockers. Blood doping.
Action mechanism of doping substances. Toxic effects and health
risk of doping. Doping and drug dependence. Doping and sudden
death.
World anti-doping agency. The world anti-doping code. International
standard and anti-doping test.
Diet supplements and sport performance: analysis of potential
health risk.
Readings/Bibliography
Ferrara S.D. – Doping Antidoping – Piccin, Padova, 2004
Mottram D.R. - Farmaci e Sport – Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano,
2003
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Slides, PC.
Office hours
See the website of Francesca Maffei