91063 - Toxicology

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student acquires cultural skills useful for the integrated understanding of the problems that contribute to defining the safety profile of drugs and products for human health. In particular, the student: - acquires the skills needed to understand the mechanisms at the biochemical, cellular, molecular, and pathological levels that underlie the toxicity; - is able to understand the ways in which a toxic substance can come into contact with the biological material, the effects of specific organs and apparatuses following exposure, as a cause of both acute and chronic diseases; - obtains a scientific preparation that allows him to address the issues related to the regulatory request for preclinical and clinical evaluation and to the evaluation of risk from drugs and health products, also in relation to adverse reactions due to possible interactions between drugs and other products for health purposes (pharmacovigilance); - is also able to address specific toxicological issues for the food and environmental sectors, based on the principles of health risk characterization associated with xenobiotics.

Syllabus

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