- Docente: Roberto Rimondini Giorgini
- Credits: 1
- SSD: BIO/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes will be: a) basic knowledge about drug metabolism (administration, clearance, therapeutics, adverse effects)
Course contents
GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY. General pharmacokinetics: movement of drugs across cell membranes; routes of administration and absorption; bioavailability; distribution of drugs in the body; volume of distribution, binding to plasma proteins; drug metabolism; excretion; time-course of drug plasmatic contents (after single or repeated administration). General pharmacodynamics: targets and mechanisms of drug action; dose-response curve; agonists, partial agonists, antagonists; individual variations (effects of age, pathological states, drug interactions, tolerance, placebo effects). General toxicity: side-effects, overdose, idiosyncratic and allergic reactions; teratogenesis and foetal toxicity; carcinogenesis; drug dependency. Clinical evaluation.
Readings/Bibliography
Michelle A. Clark, Richard Finkel, Jose A. Rey, Karen Whalen “Pharmacology” Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Teaching methods
Plenary lecture
Assessment methods
Written examination
Teaching tools
Power Point presentation (the material could be downloaded at amsacta.unibo.it )
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Rimondini Giorgini